Summary
Alex Palmatier is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in SRE-focused platform work—cost optimization, right-sizing, observability, and Kubernetes-driven infrastructure—currently shaping architecture and priorities at Quantum Metric. He brings deep, practical expertise across cloud-native stacks (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines, and a track record of shifting teams toward more reliable and cost-efficient operations. Alex’s career blends backend development in Go and Python with operational leadership, informed by earlier work building automation for Fortune 50 clients and teaching computer science at Drexel. He treats curiosity as a core competency, actively exploring VR development in Unity and Blender to keep his engineering learning muscle sharp. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex failure modes into pragmatic, scalable solutions while keeping uptime and costs in balance.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering at Drexel University
English