Alex Friedman
Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolAlex Friedman is a Senior Software Development Manager with 11 years of experience leading R&D teams in storage and distributed systems, currently managing engineering at AWS after co-founding and scaling E8 Storage through acquisition. He combines deep kernel- and architecture-level expertise in Linux and Windows with hands-on systems programming in C/C++ and assembly, and a strong background in network and storage protocols. Known for turning small agile teams into hyper-productive, quality-focused groups, he has repeatedly delivered high-performance, rack-scale storage solutions and platform reliability improvements. Alex blends technical depth with people leadership—mentoring engineers, driving cross-team collaboration, and applying XP/TDD practices to ship robust systems. Based in Tel Aviv, he holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Technion and brings a proven track record of solving thorny kernel and distributed-system problems that most managers never touch.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, M.Sc. Electrical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Hebrew, Russian, English
Stackoverflow
220reputation
4kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (27)
message-passing9
io-uring8
low-latency8
message-queue7
scalable7
zeromq7
scalability6
rpc6
moving-average6
amazon-web-services6
groupby6
numpy6
dataframe6
pandas6
babelfish6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
E8-Storage/accelio
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:23 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
rpcmessageacceleration
E8-Storage/compat
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 months
kernelbackportlinuxlinux-kernelcompatibility
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