Alex Forrow
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Vonage
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Forrow is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling large Linux-based, heterogeneous platforms across bare metal and cloud environments. Currently leading SRE at Vonage, he specialises in infrastructure-as-code, containerisation (Nomad, Kubernetes/EKS), observability (Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics) and CI to reduce MTTD/MTTR and standardise operational practices. He has driven major data-centre migrations, AWS account segmentation strategies, and compliance programs including SOC2 and HIPAA while mentoring remote teams and owning recruitment and OKRs. Previously as Director and VP at Meltwater/DataSift he led hybrid-cloud and private-cloud builds, large-scale data ingestion pipelines (Hadoop, Kafka) and resilient platform architectures for high-throughput firehoses. He pairs hands-on automation and tooling with pragmatic process change, often wrapping legacy systems with modern IaC to meet security and compliance needs. Based in the UK, he blends deep operational craft with a track record of turning complex infrastructure challenges into measurable reliability improvements.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of SouthamptonHavant College
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Github Skills (36)
home-assistant9
rabbitmq9
parser8
message-bus8
python8
php8
event-sourcing8
kafka8
streaming-data8
amqp8
cqrs8
golang7
message-queue7
stream-processor7
etl7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexforrow/php-weathermap-graphite
Mar 2012 - Mar 2020
Graphite datasource for Network Weathermap (php-weathermap)
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 years 1 month
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alexforrow/riemann-php-simple
Aug 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 12 commits, 5 pushes in 3 years
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