Alex Misstear
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Misstear is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience building cloud-integrated systems and automation at Red Hat, following senior engineering roles at Carbonite and Cisco. He specializes in backend and cloud engineering, contributing notable open-source improvements to Apache Libcloud—enhancing EC2 networking features and restoring multipart S3 uploads with signature v4 and new region support. Based in Norwood, MA, he pairs systems-level expertise from a Computer Engineering BS and an MS in Computer Science with practical test-automation and QA roots, giving him a strong reliability and ops mindset. Known for bridging provider-specific APIs into unified developer experiences, he focuses on pragmatic, production-ready solutions that ease multi-cloud operations.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (13)
libcloud10
aws-s310
ec10
storage10
amazon-ec210
aws10
amazon-s310
cloud-computing10
python10
s3-bucket10
api-design9
networking8
git7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Apache Libcloud is a Python library that hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy-to-use API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the EC2 and S3 drivers within the Apache Libcloud library. They enhanced the EC2 driver by adding support for features like ENA and SR-IOV networking for images. Furthermore, the user refactored the S3 driver to reintroduce multipart upload support, leveraging signature V4, and added support for new AWS regions. These changes indicate a focus on cloud provider integration and improving the library's functionality.
libcloudpythoncloudapache
amisstea/crossplane-control-plane
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:114 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 7 months
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