Alex Humphreys is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building and operating reliable backend systems at scale. Currently at Pleo after SRE roles at HERE Technologies and ATS, he specializes in monitoring, load testing, and incident response while bringing deep backend development experience from earlier roles. He blends practical reliability engineering with a curiosity for type theory and programming languages, often seeking ways to apply formal thinking to production problems. Comfortable across startups and larger enterprises, Alex has a history of shipping service-oriented APIs, cross-platform implementations, and automation that reduce toil and improve uptime. Notably, his background spans hands-on testing on diverse hardware and mobile platforms, giving him an uncommon perspective on system behavior across environments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Civil and Environmental, BEng, Civil and Environmental at University College Cork
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Alex Humphreys - Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Pleo