Alex Lokshin is a Staff Engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms and e-commerce systems, currently ensuring reliability and secure CI/CD at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. He specializes in Kubernetes, Go, Terraform and observability tooling, and has a track record of automating deployments and scaling infrastructure across AWS, Azure, ECS and Kubernetes. Alex has driven large migrations, search and payments platforms, and developer force-multiplication at enterprises like Office Depot and Vitacost, pairing architecture work with practical templates, custom Helm charts and golden Docker images. Known for contributing open-source tooling to simplify ECS/Kubernetes app deployment, he blends deep systems expertise with developer advocacy and mentoring. Based in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, he balances technical rigor with a quirky public-facing side—he maintains a popular cats-themed presence and even advised leadership on social content strategy.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Moscow State University
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Alex Lokshin - Staff Engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative