Alex Knol
VP SecureChain at TuxCare
Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain
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Top SchoolAlex Knol is a seasoned technology leader with 12+ years building resilient, data-driven security and cloud-native platforms, currently serving as Director of Endless Lifecycle Support at CloudLinux. He has led engineering and architecture teams across DevOps, threat intelligence, and digital risk protection, architecting event-driven pipelines that process terabytes daily and integrate hundreds of intelligence sources. Known for marrying operational rigor with developer empowerment, Alex drives measurable improvements in agility, reliability, and product quality through tooling, training, and DevOps best practices. His background spans hands-on infrastructure work—from Kubernetes and Prometheus stacks to automation in Bash, Go, and NodeJS—to strategic roles as CTO and VP shaping global system development plans. Based in Murcia, Spain, he combines enterprise leadership with a founder’s pragmatism (having co-founded a distribution business that reached €10M revenue) and a consistent focus on modernization and secure scalability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who reduces distractions so engineers can deliver high-impact security products.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Electronica / technische computerkunde, Technical Computerscience, Electronica / technische computerkunde, Technical Computerscience at MBO Hoorn Electronica / technische computerkundePR marketing, PR marketing at Instituut Notenboom
English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Catalan
Stackoverflow
141reputation
7kreached
8answers
9questions
Github Skills (200)
node-postgres10
ipfs10
bare-metal10
charts10
kubernetes-cluster10
helm10
kubernetes10
benchmarking10
libpq10
aws10
stolon9
ansible9
js9
high-availability9
postgresql9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/benchmarks
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Benchmarking for IPFS
Contributions:401 commits, 97 PRs, 246 pushes in 3 months
benchmarkingipfs
nearform/nodejs-distribution
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Repository for the various Node.js docker distributions nearForm provide and maintain
Contributions:159 commits, 38 PRs, 178 pushes in 10 months
docker-distributionnodejs
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