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 (80)
dashboard10
go-api10
grafana10
terraform10
elasticsearch10
monitoring10
hashicorp-vault10
data-visualization10
mysql10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
terraform-provider10
aws10
cloud-foundry9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
app-sre/cognito-pre-signup-trigger
Jun 2022 - Jul 2025
Holding repository for cognito trigger lambda function for rosa-authenticator in FedRAMP
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
authenticatorlambda
bkez322/qontract-reconcile
Aug 2021 - Aug 2025
CLI tool to reconcile services with their desired state as defined in App-Interface
Contributions:109 pushes, 22 branches in 4 years 1 month
reconciledefinedhintscli-toolcli
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