Alex Khaerov is a cloud and infrastructure leader with 12 years of experience building developer platforms, global network backbones, and scalable cloud foundations from hands-on engineering to people management. Currently Director of Cloud Foundation at Prudential in Singapore, he drives the Infrastructure Developer Platform and operational practices that make large-scale cloud and network systems secure, efficient, and developer-friendly. He combines deep platform engineering chops with practical coding experience—contributing backend fixes and documentation to the notable open-source Terraform project—so he still prefers shipping code over writing statements. His career spans fast-moving startups and enterprise programs where he has repeatedly stood up teams, delivered first-production services, and shepherded cloud-native architectures. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who balances strategic vision with close attention to implementation and operational resilience.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master's degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Volga State University of Telecommunications and Informatics
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the Terraform project, specifically related to the OSS backend. Their contributions involved refactoring and flattening configurations, particularly concerning the assume role block. They also addressed supporting deprecated configurations and updating documentation related to the OSS backend implementation. Additionally, the user made a merge commit.
Manage Helm 3 repositories on Google Cloud Storage 🔐 **privately**
Contributions:12 releases, 24 reviews, 77 commits in 3 years 4 months
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Alex Khaerov - Director, Cloud Foundation, GT Engineering