Alex Harford
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorAlex Harford is a Senior Software Engineer in Vancouver with 17 years of experience building systems that span low-level hardware to cloud-native services. Trained as an electrical engineer, he blends embedded systems and image/VOIP expertise with production-grade Python, Go and C/C++ software for containers and Kubernetes platforms. He has a long history of open source engagement—including Linux kernel patches—and has contributed to cloud projects like Cloud Foundry while shipping platform software at companies such as SUSE, Sauce Labs, and Tigera. Comfortable moving between firmware, device interfaces (I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB) and distributed services, he excels at bridging hardware constraints and scalable web architectures. Anecdotally, his background includes authoring technical manuals and updating legacy drivers, reflecting a practical curiosity for porting and modernizing systems.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (119)
go-language10
cloud-foundry10
webcam10
vault10
yaml10
pygame10
data-center9
service-discovery9
audio9
s3cmd9
ruby9
python9
erb9
micropython9
streaming9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alexjh/java-env
Feb 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
alexjh/scf-wiki
Aug 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
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