Alex Price
Senior Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Price is a Senior Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building highly available, scalable backend and cloud-native systems, currently focused on Kubernetes at Atlassian. He brings practical expertise in storage and VM/container integration — evidenced by contributions to the widely used Kata Containers project where he improved emptyDir performance, fixed shared-mount behavior, and added device hotplug and OOM event support. Alex progressed through engineering roles at Atlassian after earlier full‑stack and IT technician positions, combining hands-on systems work with web development foundations. He focuses on reliability and performance at scale and enjoys tackling low-level platform problems that directly improve operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Enterprise Systems Development, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Enterprise Systems Development at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
container10
develop10
architecture10
storage10
data-storage10
system10
file-storage10
go10
agent10
virtualization10
kubernetes-pods10
kata-containers10
architectures10
dockers9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
Back-end & Systems Engineer
Back-end & Systems EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Kata Containers agent, focusing on storage management and system configuration. They implemented a new local storage type for Kubernetes emptyDir volumes within the VM, improving performance. They also fixed a system mount issue for shared directory mounts and added a hotplug timeout option for block devices, along with a configurable pipe size. Furthermore, the user added support for the getOOMEvent agent endpoint.
firecrackervirtualizationociworkloadvdi
awprice/pocketsmith-summary
May 2019 - Dec 2022
VueJS UI for viewing weekly/monthly/yearly summaries of data in Pocketsmith
Contributions:38 PRs, 46 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 7 months
yearlyvuepocketsmithsummariesvuejs
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