Alex Last
Co-Founder at WeDonate
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Last is a technology founder and seasoned site reliability engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating globally scaled, Kubernetes-based systems in AWS. As Co-Founder of WeDonate, he applies his engineering rigor to a social-impact platform that rewards verified blood and plasma donors, combining product strategy, partnerships, and reliable technical delivery. Previously he led SRE efforts at ClearScore and Duco, automating CI/CD and platform tooling to improve uptime and developer velocity. An active open-source contributor, Alex has strengthened Crossplane’s AWS provider by hardening S3, RDS and Kinesis controllers—demonstrating a knack for stabilizing cloud-native resource implementations. Based in London, he blends hands-on infrastructure work with mission-driven entrepreneurship to turn complex distributed systems into dependable products that do measurable good.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Woking High SchoolPublic Services, Public Services at Brooklands CollegeCity & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in IT Professional Competence & IT Systems and Principles, City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in IT Professional Competence & IT Systems and Principles at Yeovil College
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Github Skills (12)
aws-s310
go10
aws10
amazon-s310
rds10
crossplane10
s3-bucket10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
api8
apidoc8
cicd5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
crossplane-contrib/provider-aws
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Crossplane AWS Provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the provider-aws repository by implementing and modifying functionalities related to AWS S3 and RDS resources within the Crossplane ecosystem. Their work includes making optional fields for S3 bucket replication, enabling DBCluster restoration from S3 and RDS snapshots, and fixing a postUpdate bug for DBCluster to use the correct identifier. The user also addressed a potential panic in the Kinesis stream controller when enhanced metrics were not explicitly defined. These changes suggest a focus on extending and improving the functionality and stability of the provider's AWS resource implementations.
providerterraformawsterraform-modulecrossplane
AlexLast/alexla.st
May 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
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