Alex Ives
Engineering Manager at GitLab
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Ives is an engineering manager specializing in database reliability and team scaling, with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver resilient, testable systems at scale. Currently at GitLab, he expanded and restructured the database organization globally from 5 to 20 engineers while automating infrastructure and review processes that let hundreds of developers ship safe database changes. He blends hands-on backend experience in Rails, Kotlin, and cloud-native tooling with a persistent focus on automation to accelerate delivery and preserve work–life balance. Previously he led platform and emerging-product teams, pushed continuous delivery practices, and contributed open-source CI automation efforts like RoboPigeon. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he combines pragmatic engineering with people-first management and a knack for turning operational pain points into scalable tooling.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, BS, Computer Science and Mathematics at Augsburg College
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Github Skills (153)
python10
firmware10
ruby10
gitea10
automation10
arm10
rest-api10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
keyboard10
avr10
api10
rest10
home-automation10
cli10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
alexives/qmk_firmware
Mar 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 11 months
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Team-Ives/score-cleaver
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 21 commits, 12 PRs in 26 days
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