Alex Malinovich
Advisor at MeeteR
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Malinovich is an experienced technology leader and advisor in New York with 21 years building and scaling cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure-focused products and teams. He has held executive and sales-engineering roles at GitHub, CoreOS, and Engine Yard, and briefly led a startup as CEO, blending commercial strategy with deep technical execution. A hands-on contributor to notable open-source projects, he added AWS ELB support to the widely used Ruby fog library and improved Engine Yard’s chef recipes, demonstrating expertise in cloud APIs, automation, and reliability engineering. His background spans network engineering, VoIP platforms, and deployment services, giving him a rare cross-functional perspective from low-level systems to enterprise sales. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he surfaces durable automation and observability improvements that scale across teams and infrastructure.
21 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (33)
postgresql10
apidoc10
scripting10
configuration-management10
linux10
aws-elb10
ruby10
chef-client10
script10
api10
aws10
system-administration10
sh10
chef-solo10
plex10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mrworf/plexupdate
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
Plex Update script to simplify the life of Linux Plex Media Server users.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Shell Scripting Specialist
DevOps Engineer & Shell Scripting SpecialistContributions:1 review, 68 commits, 37 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the `plexupdate` script, which is designed to simplify the lives of Plex Media Server users. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to command-line options and user configurations, cleaning up error messages, and improving the overall robustness of the script. They also introduced new features and improved maintainability by refactoring and standardizing code.
plex-medianetdataplexlinuxdocker
engineyard/ey-cloud-recipes
Oct 2009 - Apr 2010
A starter repo for custom chef recipes on EY's cloud platform. These are for reference, and do not indicate a supported status.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the existing cloud recipes for Engine Yard's platform. They implemented changes related to memcached, including moving configuration files, fixing memory settings, and enabling compatibility with solo instances. Furthermore, they added and updated recipes for ssmtp and significantly improved postgres recipes with backup handling and dependency management. These improvements reflect a strong emphasis on infrastructure automation, configuration management, and system administration tasks.
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