Alex Munda
Staff Software Engineer at Cribl
United States
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Top SchoolAlex Munda is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, multi-tenant cloud platforms and distributed systems. He helped design and implement core microservices for HashiCorp Cloud Platform, drove cross-organizational projects to unify HCP and Terraform Cloud, and built high-traffic identity and lifecycle-management features used in production. Comfortable across the stack, Alex has led teams, bootstrapped workflow infrastructure (Cadence/Temporal), and advocated for reliability practices like E2E gating, SLO analysis, and observability. An active contributor to open source, he improved idempotent dispatch semantics in HashiCorp’s widely used Nomad orchestrator, evidencing a focus on robust, user-facing APIs. Now at Cribl, he brings deep operational experience and a knack for turning complex distributed requirements into maintainable, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Kansas State University
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Github Skills (7)
idempotent10
go10
api10
nomad10
apidoc10
testing10
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 13 commits, 1 PR in 14 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the dispatch functionality within the Nomad workload orchestrator. Their contributions involved introducing and refining an idempotency mechanism for dispatched jobs, initially using a meta key and later transitioning to an idempotency token. They also implemented related tests and made improvements to error messages for better user experience. The changes included modifications to the job endpoint and API to support these features.
vaultperformantmicroserviceworkloadoperate
hashicorp/terraform-provider-hcs
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
Terraform provider for HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure.
Contributions:14 reviews, 153 commits, 19 PRs in 5 months
hashicorp-consulhashicorp-consul-serviceproviderhcsconsul-service
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