Alex M
Application Development Specialist Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex M is an Application Development Specialist Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and building cloud-native systems across Google Cloud, AWS, and enterprise consultancies. He blends hands-on software development with presales and training, helping customers adopt GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions and the Google Cloud CI/CD toolchain while contributing to Kubernetes ecosystem projects like the widely used GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes-engine-samples. Previously a chief architect and AWS solutions architect, he has led teams building serverless analytics and cloud-ops advisory services that emphasize cost, security, and automation. Known for pragmatic engineering, Alex writes tooling and sample apps (including the whereami sample with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry integration) to simplify real-world deployments and reliability. Based in Chicago, he pairs deep technical certifications and a strong academic foundation with an unexpected personal discipline: he’s a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Post Baccalaureate Certificate Computer Programming, Post Baccalaureate Certificate Computer Programming at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Finance & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Finance & Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
golang, Spanish, python, javascript
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
python10
gcp10
google-cloud-run10
kubernetes-pods10
backend10
grpc10
flask-ask9
sample-data9
sample-size9
prometheus9
sample-rate9
flask9
opentelemetry9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes-engine-samples
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Sample applications for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 23 commits, 65 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `whereami` application, a sample application for Google Kubernetes Engine. Their work involved implementing features like header echoing, gRPC support, and integration with Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry tracing. The user also focused on improving the application's reliability and Cloud Run compatibility by addressing thread starvation issues and incorporating caching mechanisms. Further contributions included adding Cloud Run and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) specific fields and refining the deployment configuration.
google-kubernetes-engine
theemadnes/microservices-saga-sample
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 9 pushes in 1 month
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