Alex Lo
Staff SRE at MongoDB
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lo is a Staff SRE with 11+ years of experience building and operating scalable, secure cloud infrastructure across startups and major tech companies. He has led infrastructure and platform efforts at Hopper and Flatiron Health and launched core Google Cloud networking services that unlocked >$100M in customer contracts. A pragmatic engineer and manager, he focuses on simplicity, reliability, and automation—often solving problems so they never resurface. He contributes to Ansible upstream, improving cloud modules and EC2 inventory scripts to make cloud automation more robust. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Alex pairs hands-on coding with cross-team coordination and a history of operating in regulated environments (HIPAA) and multi-cloud deployments. He’s equally at home optimizing costs and designing APIs as he is presenting and organizing meetups to share operational best practices.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (24)
go-modules10
boto10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
kernel-module10
aws10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
jsmodules10
error-handling10
devops9
automation9
automations9
cloud-computing8
debugging7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
May 2015 - Mar 2017
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 32 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the Ansible inventory scripts, specifically the ec2.py script, to handle and report errors more effectively, particularly related to AWS interactions with RDS and ElastiCache. They also modified the cloudtrail module to correct errors and ensure proper boto library usage and parameter handling. The changes involved generalizing error reporting, adding explanations, and simplifying variable names.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
ansible/ansible-modules-extras
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Ansible extra modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on maintaining and improving the cloudtrail module within the Ansible project. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to boto library checking, addressing typos in error messages, and correcting the state of the cloudtrail module. These changes ensure the module functions correctly and provides accurate feedback to users. The user's work directly impacted the functionality and usability of the cloudtrail module.
ansible
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