Alex Chircop
Principal Engineer, Cloud Control Plane at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlex Chircop is a seasoned technology leader and principal engineer focused on cloud native control planes, with a 30+ year track record building infrastructure, storage and automation platforms across finance, telecom and cloud. As founder and CTO/CEO of Ondat (formerly StorageOS) he designed core dataplane algorithms, patented the IP, and led the company through acquisition by Akamai, where he served as Chief Architect and now shapes Google’s Cloud Control Plane. He combines hands-on systems engineering—from UNIX and virtualization to storage, networking and security—with strategy and CXO-level communication, repeatedly delivering large global projects and teams. An influential community contributor, Alex co-chaired the CNCF Storage TAG, helped draft CNCF operating models and authored the Cloud Native Storage whitepaper. He’s passionate about making complex services composable from commodity infrastructure and about declarative service models that enable developer self-service. A less obvious strength is his blend of deep low-level engineering experience with product-first thinking, enabling both patented core technology and customer-ready production solutions.
9 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
St. Aloysious
Github Skills (44)
storage10
persistent-storage10
utm10
docker8
intelligent8
docker-image8
real-time-data6
linux6
data-mesh6
kubernetes6
dragonfly6
primitive6
p2p5
windows5
imap5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cncf/tag-storage
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
🗄CNCF Storage TAG
Contributions:2 reviews, 49 commits, 46 PRs in 5 years 10 months
persistent-storageutmcncfstorage
chira001/toc
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
⚖️Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
committeetoc
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