Alex Rashed
Staff Software Engineer at LocalStack
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Rashed is a Staff Software Engineer based in Vienna with a decade of experience building backend systems and cloud tooling. At LocalStack he contributes to the popular local AWS cloud stack, enhancing its AWS service framework with parsers, serializers and tests to improve offline development and Serverless testing. His career progressed from long-term engineering roles to software architect and senior positions at NTS Retail, demonstrating a steady rise into technical leadership. Alex holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from TU Wien and augmented his CS background with study at Linköping University, blending formal training with practical open-source impact. Notably, he focuses on making complex cloud protocols work reliably in local environments—a detail that benefits developers testing production-like workflows without AWS.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science at Linköping UniversityMatura, Information Technology, Matura, Information Technology at HTL Wels
Github Skills (9)
serialization10
aws-sdk10
data-serialization10
text-parsing10
aws10
parsing10
python10
testing10
botocore9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
localstack/localstack
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1298 reviews, 132 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing and expanding the AWS service framework within the localstack project. Their commits included adding parsers, serializers, and tests for AWS Service Framework components, enabling support for various AWS service protocols. The user also updated the source version to match the latest published package version.
serverless-cloudpythonaws-cloudtestingserverless
localstack/plux
Jan 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
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