Alex Njaastad
Senior Software Engineer Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolAlex Njaastad is a Senior Software Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms focused on reliability, scalability, and security. Currently at Red Hat after leading cloud platform efforts at Allstate, he blends software engineering with systems administration to drive SLO-driven monitoring, observability, and maintainability. Proficient in Go, Java, Python, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform, Vault, and AWS, he consistently turns complex distributed systems into auditable, resilient services. Passionate about SRE culture, he prioritizes automation and measurable SLAs to reduce toil and improve developer velocity. Based in the Greater Chicago Area and pursuing an MS at Georgia Tech, he combines strong enterprise experience with continued academic growth.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northern Illinois University
English
Github Skills (125)
dashboard10
grafana10
terraform10
http-service10
elasticsearch10
reconcile10
operator10
monitoring10
catalog10
data-visualization10
cli10
mysql10
analytics10
prometheus10
visualization10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bkez322/qontract-reconcile
Aug 2021 - Nov 2023
CLI tool to reconcile services with their desired state as defined in App-Interface
Contributions:97 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 3 months
reconciledefinedhintscli-toolcli
bkez322/deployment-validation-operator
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
The Deployment Validator Operator (DVO) checks deployments and other resources against a curated collection of best practices.
Contributions:61 pushes, 11 branches in 6 months
deploymentoperatorbest-ofvalidatorkubernetes
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