Alex Jurkiewicz
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Lightspeed Commerce
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Jurkiewicz is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience designing, building and operating resilient Linux-based infrastructure for cloud-native services. Based in Perth, he has progressed through senior and leadership SRE roles at Lightspeed Commerce, shaping core platforms, CI/CD and team practices while mentoring product teams to build self-managing systems. He combines deep expertise in AWS, configuration management (Puppet) and deployment pipelines with a pragmatic focus on reliability, compliance and operational efficiency. An active open-source contributor, Alex has improved gameplay and tooling in projects ranging from Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup to Minecraft-Overviewer and helped streamline AWS console access in the granted project—evidence of his knack for improving both user-facing features and developer tooling. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions that balance long-term maintainability with rapid delivery.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
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c-language10
cloud-computing10
python10
image-processing10
command-line-interface10
jpeg10
mechanics10
go10
aws10
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cprogramming-language10
cli10
documentation9
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
crawl/crawl
Oct 2014 - Aug 2022
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 369 commits, 288 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup codebase by addressing various issues related to game mechanics and code quality. Their work includes reporting and resolving duplicate argument options, enhancing Xom acquirement, enabling troll leather armor regeneration, adjusting monster behavior regarding gold drops, and implementing improvements to item interactions, like potion handling and removing a speed penalty in UC/throwing. The contributions suggest a focus on gameplay balance and overall code maintainability.
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common-fate/granted
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
The easiest way to access your cloud.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the "granted" project, focusing on the AWS console access tool. Their work included adding shortcuts and mapping for AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, WAF, and RDS. They also implemented the ability to support arbitrary service names and displayed credential duration in a human-readable format. Furthermore, the user enhanced the filtering capabilities within the application.
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