Alex Hoffer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Kollective Technology
Bend, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAlex 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
Github Skills (138)
api-management10
high-availability10
grafana10
opentelemetry-collector10
exporter10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
consul10
opentelemetry10
microservices10
backend10
tempo10
monitoring10
service-mesh10
charts10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AlexDHoffer/Midas
May 2019 - May 2020
Visualizations of personal finance data with focuses on being extremely portable, reliable, and scalable.
Contributions:46 commits, 9 PRs, 124 pushes in 1 year
financialscalabledavincireliablepersonal-finance
AlexDHoffer/CSSeniorCapstone
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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