Alex Glikson
Architect at ScaleOps - Cloud-Native Optimization
Israel
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Top SchoolAlex Glikson is an architect and hands-on engineering leader with 13+ years building cloud-native, Kubernetes-centric platforms and SaaS backends, currently shaping cloud-native optimization at ScaleOps. He has led large distributed R&D teams and product architecture efforts—most recently as Chief Architect for Spot Ocean—delivering advanced autoscaling, spot-VM cost optimization, and Kubernetes resource-management innovations. His background spans cloud security (CloudGuard at Check Point), serverless and edge research at IBM and Carnegie Mellon, and deep experience with AWS-native SaaS architectures and modernization. Known for pragmatic, elegant solutions and strong ownership, he repeatedly drives product innovation from research to IP and production. An early contributor to OpenStack Nova (improving scheduler, virt and compute code hygiene) and a frequent hands-on engineer, he blends research rigor with production-grade implementation. Based in Israel with an MSc in Computer Science and an MBA, he couples technical depth with strategic product leadership.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Management, MBA Management at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Hebrew, Russian, English
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Github Skills (8)
laravel-nova10
ova10
openstack10
openstack-nova10
back-end-development10
python10
cloud-computing9
database-management8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Mar 2013 - Mar 2015
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to fixing typos and minor issues within various OpenStack Nova files. The changes involved correcting comments, messages, and code, particularly within the scheduler, virt, compute, and database modules. These modifications enhance the overall code quality and maintainability of the compute service, while also fixing a typo in the hyperv driver.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
kpavel/leon-openwhisk-local
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 20 pushes in 4 months
serverlessnodesinteractbluemixibm
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