Alex Garella
Founder at Rust Jobs 🦀
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Garella is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading backend, data and infrastructure teams across FinTech, media, cybersecurity and low-code platforms. He founded niche hiring platforms ScalaJobs.com, RustJobs.dev and Golang.cafe to solve real-world recruiting friction, growing each into high-traffic hubs that connect specialist engineers with companies. Technically hands-on with Scala-driven systems, stream processing (Flink, Kafka) and cloud-native architectures, he has led engineering and platform efforts at DriveTribe and Mendix to improve scalability and resilience. Based in London, Alex blends product-minded engineering with recruitment market insight—an entrepreneur who turned hiring pain points into focused developer communities.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Christelijk Gymnasium SorghvlietComputer Science & Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering at Delft University of TechnologyComputer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science and Mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University
English, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Turkish
Github Skills (87)
vpn-client10
rust10
aws-cloudwatch10
newsletter10
pelican10
vpn-server10
cloudwatch10
vpn9
ipsec9
continuation9
exporter9
wireguard9
security9
effects9
encryption9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
agarella/HaskellScripts
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:21 pushes in 1 year 7 months
agarella/alexgarella.com
Feb 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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