Alex Manson
Senior SRE at Aiven
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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RockstarAlex Manson is a Senior SRE with over a decade of hands-on experience building reliable, cost-conscious infrastructure and data processing pipelines across Python and Elixir ecosystems. He has bridged roles from MLOps and application development to incident command, improving production ML deployments, refactoring legacy systems, and hardening platform reliability for managed services like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and ClickHouse. Known for shipping pragmatic automation and internal tooling, Alex also maintains upstream packaging work and has a background in NLP/ML—deploying FastText, BERT, and DistillBERT models into production. A pragmatic bug bounty hunter since 2015, he brings a security-minded, systems-level perspective to operational risk and postmortem-driven improvement. Colleagues credit him as a detail-oriented problem solver who reduces overhead while raising engineering standards and documentation. Based in Auckland, he pairs cross-team communication with deep technical craft to drive measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (194)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
NeuroWinter/bugbounty_image
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
A docker image that contains all the tools I use while bug hunting
Contributions:14 commits, 15 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
docker-image
NeuroWinter/advent-of-code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2025
This is a collection of my various attempts at Advent of Code.
Contributions:11 PRs, 13 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years
python
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