Alex Perez
Small Business Owner at Rabbit Hole Computing
Santa Rosa, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Perez is a seasoned Linux systems and data center engineer with over 21 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure for startups and hyperscale environments. He has deep hands-on expertise in virtualization (VMware ESXi), MySQL and memcache clustering, custom kernel performance tuning, and capacity planning, and has managed deployment and monitoring of tens of thousands of power devices at LinkedIn. As a small business owner he sources surplus corporate hardware to maximize price/performance and runs Rabbit Hole Computing, applying practical, cost-conscious engineering to real-world deployments. His background includes building automated test labs for embedded RTOS work at Wind River and architecting cloud migrations and performance tuning across AWS, Rackspace, and bare-metal platforms. Alex contributes to open-source web projects, having improved front-end content and usability for the Sugar Labs website, showing a willingness to bridge infrastructure and user-facing improvements. Based in Santa Rosa, he combines long-term operational discipline with a knack for squeezing extra performance and value out of existing hardware.
21 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Anthropology, Anthropology at Santa Rosa Junior College
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Github Skills (7)
html10
website-design10
css9
fest9
javascript8
responsive-design7
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sugarlabs/www
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
The Sugar Labs web site
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on updating and improving the Sugar Labs website's front-end content and structure. Their contributions involved removing outdated information such as contact details and links, and refactoring website elements. They also worked on updating the website's overall presentation, like adding a "try it" button and altering the display of the homepage. Additionally, the user updated the wording and layout for enhanced readability.
web-siteweb-apprubysugarcreative-commons
ZuluIDE/ZuluIDE-firmware
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
ZuluIDE emulates a parallel ATA ATAPI CD-ROM drive, or parallel ATA Zip/Removable (read and write) media
Contributions:23 releases, 1 review, 79 PRs in 1 year
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