Alex Burnos
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Burnos is a Staff Software Engineer based in Los Gatos with eight years of focused experience bringing product thinking to cloud and infrastructure platforms. He has driven global distributed control plane architecture and cloud infrastructure at Google and Netflix, combining hands-on systems programming (Go, C++, Python) with strategic API and backend design. Earlier roles span network engineering and large-scale automation at Google and critical infrastructure delivery for ISPs and banks, giving him rare end-to-end expertise from silicon-to-service. An active contributor to Istio’s infrastructure—adding GKE upgrades, Envoy bootstrap templating, and CA integration—he blends open-source impact with enterprise reliability. His MBA from Warwick complements his technical depth with business and product fluency, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between developer productivity, scale, and operational excellence.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Project Management, Master's degree Project Management at National Aviation UniversityMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General at University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
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Github Skills (16)
istio10
env10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
docker10
envoyproxy10
dockers10
convoy10
kubernetes-pods10
gcp10
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 15 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration changes within the Istio project. They updated the GKE version used in GCP deployment scripts, ensuring compatibility. They also added flags and features related to Envoy bootstrap generation, including custom templates for control plane components. Furthermore, the user modified Dockerfiles and build scripts to incorporate Envoy bootstrap templates and CA certificates, and added a discovery address for Envoy.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
alexburnos/istio
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 19 days
golangsecuresecuritykubernetesobserve
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