Alex Feiszli
Founder, CEO at Netmaker (YC W22)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Feiszli is a founder and CEO with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native and distributed networking systems, currently leading Netmaker to simplify secure virtual networks using WireGuard. Prior to founding Netmaker, he led enterprise Kubernetes and multicloud initiatives at IBM and Crossvale, helping deliver containerized solutions and driving millions in cloud software sales. His background blends product-facing leadership with deep backend and DevOps chops—he contributes directly to Netmaker's gRPC, auth, and database codebase to harden security and network functionality. Based in Austin, he pairs an economics BA with computer science and business minors, giving him a pragmatic, cross-functional view of technical and go-to-market tradeoffs. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers shipping working systems over abstract designs, and his GitHub activity shows a consistent focus on making distributed networking "just work."
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics; Minors in Computer Science and Business, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics; Minors in Computer Science and Business at University of Rochester
Github Skills (9)
authorisation10
authentication10
go10
back-end-development10
authorization10
grpc10
auth10
networking9
devops8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gravitl/netmaker
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 releases, 280 reviews, 1639 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily centered around modifications to the `netmaker` project's back-end code, including changes to the gRPC service, configuration management, and database interactions. Code changes suggest a focus on improving user authentication and permission, with efforts to address security concerns through the modification of access keys. Their work also involved modifications to network functionality.
wireguardvpnmeshzero-trustdevsecops
gravitl/netmaker-helm
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 reviews, 28 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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