Alex Lokshin
Sr. Staff Engineer, AI Compute at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Lake Worth Beach, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAlex 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
School 57Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, java, c#, node.js, chatgpt, golang
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Github Skills (47)
kubernetes-cluster9
docker9
aws9
azure8
go8
dotnet8
bare-metal8
golang8
csharp8
cloud-computing7
ecosystem7
testing7
high-availability7
kubernetes7
fsharp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexlokshin/crawler
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 119 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
brewerycraft-beercraftparsercrawler
alexlokshin/kube-entropy
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Simplistic chaos engineering tool for kubernetes application resilience testing
Contributions:28 commits, 22 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 3 months
chaos-engineeringkubernetestesting
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