Summary
Alex Hoffer is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Bend, Oregon with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native, observable systems at scale. He specializes in streaming data pipelines, Kubernetes operations, and cost-conscious infrastructure work—having scaled Kafka/Spark pipelines, migrated production Cassandra clusters, and saved his company over $50k/year by replacing a hosted tracing solution. Comfortable across the DevOps toolchain, Alex automates with Terraform, Ansible, Helm/ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions while driving SOC2 readiness in Azure. He pairs a rare combination of data engineering and SRE expertise with hands-on incident response for globally distributed customer-facing systems. Outside of work he recharges outdoors in Central Oregon, a backdrop that complements his pragmatic, systems-minded approach to tough reliability problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology at Oregon State University