Alex Gartrell
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlex Gartrell is a seasoned infrastructure engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling Linux-focused teams and low-level systems at massive scale. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has led growth from small SWE teams into organizations of hundreds while improving morale, diversity, productivity, and code quality across areas from kernel and driver work to container runtimes and efficiency analytics. His career at Meta spans kernel subsystems, container orchestration, CDN and cache infrastructure, and platform efficiency—often contributing upstream to open source and embedding production-grade solutions into community projects like systemd and the Linux kernel. Alex pairs deep hands-on systems expertise (including early work on memcache protocol and IPv6 networking) with a proven ability to operationalize long-term engineering standards and prioritize technical debt and efficiency. Now at Thinking Machines Lab, he continues to bridge low-level engineering and organizational scaling in infrastructure-centric environments.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Software Engineering, B.S. Computer Science Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (94)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/py2bpf
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
A python to bpf (Berkeley Packet Filter bytecode) converter
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
bpfpythonbytecodepacketbytecode-converter
alexgartrell/libbpf-rs
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
Minimal and opinionated eBPF tooling for the Rust ecosystem
Contributions:27 pushes, 11 branches in 11 months
rustebpfecosystemtooling
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