Alex Pollitt
Advisor And Consultant at Freelance / Self Employed
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Pollitt is an advisor and consultant with 11+ years of broad software and startup experience, and a multi-decade engineering pedigree spanning telecoms, real-time multimedia, cloud-native networking and security. He co-founded and served as CTO of Tigera, helped scale Project Calico into major cloud providers, and now advises investors and founders on product strategy, go-to-market, engineering leadership and open source business models. Comfortable from low-level telecom protocols to Kubernetes, containers and distributed systems, he blends technical depth with practical scaling and security know-how. An active contributor to Calico documentation, he brings a user-focused approach to developer experience as well as rigorous due diligence skills for investors. Trained in computer science and later in counselling, he pairs technical leadership with an unusual emphasis on team culture and people-centred coaching.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, BSc Hons, Computer Science at The University of ManchesterPerson-Centred Counselling - Diploma (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy), Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Person-Centred Counselling - Diploma (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy), Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute
Github Skills (6)
html10
documentation10
jekyll9
kubernetes6
kubernetes-pods6
networking5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calico
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:33 reviews, 9 commits, 227 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily involve updating documentation files within the Calico project. They made several revisions to the `index.html` file, which likely serves as a key entry point for project information. Additionally, the user updated the `docwithnav.html` layout file to include warnings about the v2.0 Beta documentation, highlighting their focus on documentation accuracy and user experience. They also updated free training links in documentation.
multi-clustersecuritynetworkingsdnvirtual-network
lxpollitt/calico
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Cloud native connectivity and network policy
Contributions:2 PRs, 106 pushes, 52 branches in 8 months
connectivitypolicygcpnetwork-policyinfrastructure-management
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