Alex Grand
Senior DevOps Engineer at The National Institutes of Health
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Grand is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across on-prem, AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenStack. He specializes in Kubernetes/OpenShift ecosystems (CKA, CKAD, CKS and many Red Hat specialist certs), GitOps with ArgoCD, IaC via Terraform and automation with Ansible and Puppet, consistently delivering >99.9% reliability for critical services. Alex pairs deep database expertise (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB) and DBA automation with platform engineering—reducing database delivery from days to minutes and cutting VM provisioning times by nearly half. At NIH he led zero-downtime OpenShift upgrades and multi-cluster management; he also contributes to developer tooling such as a VS Code extension for the Flow language. Based in Tampa, he blends operations rigor with developer empathy, often teaching teams how to adopt repeatable, observable delivery practices.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science - Computer-Aided Design Systems, Master's degree, Computer Science - Computer-Aided Design Systems at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
Github Skills (13)
flowtype10
work-flow10
javascript10
workflow-automation10
flow-control10
vscode-extension10
control-flow10
typescript-types9
language-server-protocol9
typescript9
typescripts9
testing4
react3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
flow/flow-for-vscode
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Flow for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 16 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development of a VS Code extension for the Flow language. Their work included implementing language features such as hover information, completion suggestions, and definition providers. The user also refactored the code and updated dependencies, and added alerts. This included the addition of language support for javascript and javascriptreact files.
visual-studio-code
Kr0na/point-reducer-builder
Jan 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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