Alex Kira
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Kira is a seasoned technology leader based in San Francisco with over 14 years of hands-on experience delivering full-lifecycle software and distributed systems. He combines deep expertise in Python, Java, and Elixir with practical experience in cloud infrastructure (Amazon EC2) and operational data management. A thoughtful mentor and Agile practitioner, he leads complex end-to-end projects while quickly adopting new technologies and paradigms like functional programming and concurrency. Alex is the author and principal contributor of Exq, a Redis-backed job processing library for Elixir, demonstrating his ability to build reliable background processing at scale. His interests span data workflows, orchestration, machine learning, and blockchain, reflecting a blend of systems-level rigor and curiosity about emerging infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
genserver10
elixir10
job-queue10
redis10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
akira/exq
Jul 2013 - Nov 2022
Job processing library for Elixir - compatible with Resque / Sidekiq
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 2 reviews, 447 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on developing the backend job processing library. Their contributions included refactoring code for better structure, renaming modules for clarity, and modifying the data structures for more efficient operation. They also implemented the core mechanics of enqueuing and dequeuing jobs from the Redis queue. Furthermore, they worked on setting up and integrating a new API for improved handling of jobs.
elixirresquesidekiqjob-queueexq
akira/exq_ui
Dec 2015 - Nov 2022
UI Dashboard for Exq, a job processing library for Elixir. Exq UI provides the UI dashboard to display stats on job processing.
Contributions:6 releases, 123 commits, 60 PRs in 7 years
elixirexq
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