Alex Leites
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Leites is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with over 25 years of hands-on experience and a decade focused on cloud-native platforms, currently shaping Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft. He combines deep systems-level expertise—from assembler and embedded systems to cloud infrastructure—with a proven track record designing and operating hardened, portable Kubernetes platforms for mission-critical, air-gapped and multi-cloud environments. At GE Digital he led platform architecture, operator/controller development, CI/CD and security hardening, and has repeatedly driven containerization and service-oriented transformations across complex product lines. Known for pragmatic choices in distro, networking, runtimes and observability, he bridges infrastructure, platform services and consumer guidance to enable reliable, secure deployments. An engineer who still understands packets and machine code, he brings both low-level intuition and cloud-scale platform craftsmanship to solve challenging operational problems.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Tel Aviv UniversityMoscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
English, Russian, Hebrew
Github Skills (130)
testing10
k8s10
podman10
provisioning10
vhd10
golang10
cli10
karpenter10
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
cloud-init10
agent10
go10
docker10
kubeadm10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/karpenter-provider-azure
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
AKS Karpenter Provider
Contributions:26 releases, 1112 reviews, 512 PRs in 2 years 8 months
karpenter
Azure/autoscaler
Jul 2024 - Apr 2026
Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
Contributions:9 reviews, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
autoscalingkubernetes
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