Alex Kompel
Sr Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kompel is a Sr. Principal Engineer based in California with over 20 years designing and delivering complex, cross-platform and cloud-native systems across startups and large enterprises. He has driven scalable, highly available architectures and automation from the infrastructure up—spanning UNIX/Windows development, databases, networking, storage and ops—most recently shaping networking and security products at Palo Alto Networks after leading cloud services automation at VeloCloud/VMware. His career includes senior roles at 23andMe, PayPal and Zazzle, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on engineering, systems architecture and operational leadership. Colleagues rely on him to translate messy, interdisciplinary problems into pragmatic, production-grade solutions that balance reliability, performance and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
'95 - MS Computer Science
English, Russian
Github Skills (10)
reversi10
rollback10
nethack9
linux8
git-repository8
roguelike8
kotlin6
android6
dynamic-analysis1
architecture1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alkom/droidzebra
Apr 2015 - Mar 2019
DroidZebra Reversi for Android
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
kotlinreversiandroid
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