Alex Orlov
Software Engineer at Pure Storage
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Orlov is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across cloud storage, email migration, and performance tooling. Based in Redmond, he has driven design and implementation for Azure Storage and hybrid cloud services at Microsoft and now contributes to enterprise storage at Pure Storage. His background spans low-level C/C++ performance tools at Intel to large-scale Azure services, giving him a rare blend of systems-level rigor and cloud-scale engineering. Alex has practical DevOps and automation chops demonstrated by contributions to the widely used Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), where he improved Windows binary drop automation and robust error handling. He is comfortable working across the stack—build pipelines, diagnostics, data pipelines and service health monitoring—and often surfaces non-obvious optimizations that improve first-user experience and operational reliability. Trained as a mathematician and system programmer, he pairs analytical depth with hands-on implementation.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Informatics, Business analyst, Master of Business Informatics, Business analyst at State University High School of Economy, Nizhniy Novgorod branchMaster of Science (M.S.), Mathematician, system programmer, Master of Science (M.S.), Mathematician, system programmer at Nizhniy Novgorod State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (20)
scripting10
windows10
cicd10
automation10
7zip10
build-automation10
powershell10
automations10
csharp5
cpp5
cplus5
deep-neural-networks5
deep-learning5
deeplearning-ai5
machine-learning4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/CNTK
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), an open source deep-learning toolkit
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:29 releases, 176 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the automation and build processes for the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK). Their work involved creating and modifying a PowerShell script to generate binary drops for Windows, including copying build binaries, cleaning up unwanted files, and creating a ZIP archive. The user also implemented changes to integrate with a remote share, and incorporated 7-Zip for improved zip file creation. Furthermore, they introduced command-line parameters and error handling, enhancing the robustness of the binary drop script.
pytorchpythondeep-learningc-plus-plusmachine-learning
microsoft/CNTK-docker
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) Docker Images
Contributions:68 commits, 37 pushes, 11 branches in 9 months
dockercognitivedocker-imagesmicrosoftcognitive-toolkit
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