Alex Craig
Senior DevOps Engineer at Upgrade, Inc.
Greater Bend Area Australia
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Top SchoolAlex Craig is a Senior DevOps/Site Reliability engineer with 10 years' experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes. Currently scaling secure platforms at Upgrade, Inc., he has a track record of designing cost-conscious, production-ready data pipelines and observability stacks—having migrated services, cut monitoring costs by >$50k/year, and led SOC2 implementations. Alex blends software engineering and SRE practices, automating provisioning with Terraform/Ansible, deploying via ArgoCD/Helm, and optimizing high-volume Kafka/Spark ETL workloads. His background includes hands-on work with Citus Hyperscale Postgres, Databricks Delta Lake, Flink, and self-hosted tracing/telemetry, reflecting both depth in distributed systems and attention to operational detail. With dual degrees in Computer Science and Psychology and early research on IoT usability, he brings a pragmatic, user-aware perspective to reliability and platform design.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Oregon State University
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Github Skills (52)
allegro8
displays7
css7
time-complexity6
boost6
asio6
tcp6
c116
packing6
javascript6
buttons6
boost-asio5
dm5
connections5
beast5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Jester565/Tropadom2
Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
A Terraria like game utilizing my AllegroExt, Lighting4, and CppClient2 libraries.
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
cppgamedevgame-developmentterrariagame-engine
Jester565/CommProto-PacketGen
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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