Alex Harford
Senior Software Engineer at Tigera
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex 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
22 years of employment as a software developer
CentennialBachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Electrical Engineering at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (151)
controller10
sap-cap10
go-language10
streaming10
cloud-foundry10
webcam10
audio10
live-video10
vault10
yaml10
foundry10
pygame10
api-gateway10
configuration-file10
pcf10
Programming languages (12)
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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