Alex Paul
Site Reliability Engineer at Planet Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Paul is a Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently helping Planet Labs scale its fleet of space robots from San Francisco. He began his career managing LAMP stacks and evolved into leading DevOps and architecture at startups like Couchsurfing, plus ops roles at RapLeaf/LiveRamp where he operated and automated 24/7 production systems. Alex excels at Linux administration, capacity planning, and pragmatic automation, and is known for learning quickly and leveraging unconventional resources to solve thorny problems. He combines deep operational instincts with software engineering experience across Rails, Hadoop, and cloud infrastructure, enabling him to bridge product and platform needs. Colleagues rely on him for durable, low-friction solutions in high-stakes environments—often turning messy legacy systems into reliable, scalable services.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (34)
data-management9
metadata9
dmx5129
metadata-management9
midi8
artnet8
neo4j-server7
controller7
ansible7
midi-controller7
python7
ssh7
qml6
openxr6
django6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexpaulzor/scads
Jul 2018 - May 2026
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 11 months
alexpaulzor/CursedGames
Oct 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 33 pushes, 17 branches in 5 years 1 month
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