Alex Lourie
DevOps Manager at Zepben
Greater Adelaide Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lourie is a seasoned IT and systems integration engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting complex server, storage and networking solutions across Linux, Unix, Windows and macOS environments. He blends deep systems architecture and automation skills with software development in Python and Go, and has contributed notable improvements to the GoCQL Cassandra driver—adding DNS lookup enhancements, query cancellation and richer metrics. Comfortable leading teams and customer-facing support, Alex has managed DevOps at Zepben and delivered infrastructure engineering at Instaclustr and Red Hat, with a career rooted in both product integration and field deployments. He is pragmatic about languages—actively using modern tools while retaining the ability to read and maintain legacy C/C++, Ruby and PHP code—and prefers solving system-level problems over Java development. Based in Adelaide, he pairs hardware research and certification experience with a pragmatic focus on automating operations and improving observability in distributed systems.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMiddle School Diploma, General, Middle School Diploma, General at 28
Russian, English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
cassandra10
testing10
databases10
ruby10
go10
device-driver10
driver10
golang10
cassandra-database10
database10
nosql9
ui-design9
plugin-development9
query-optimization9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cassandra-gocql-driver
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
GoCQL Driver for Apache Cassandra®
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 45 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex made significant contributions to the GoCQL driver for Apache Cassandra, including implementing DNS lookup improvements, modifying test configurations and incorporating query metrics for better monitoring. They also addressed timezone issues in date marshalling and enabled the cancellation of queries. The user also contributed to improving test coverage with multi-node test cluster capabilities. The commits focused on enhancements related to functionality, performance, and testing.
golangdrivernosqlcassandradatabase
danlucraft/redcar
Aug 2010 - Sep 2010
A cross-platform programmer's editor written in Ruby.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:49 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex appears to be working on a programmer's editor, as indicated by the repository description. Their commits involve modifications to the auto-highlighter plugin, including changes to highlight pair matching, color theme integration, and toolbar addition. Further commits address menu and toolbar updates, indicating the user is involved in UI and UX improvements, potentially enhancing code readability and user interaction.
text-editoreditorrubycross-platform
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