Alex Regan
Senior Software Engineer at Tigera
Cork, Munster, Ireland
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Top SchoolAlex Regan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cork with 8 years' experience building cloud-native networking and security solutions at Tigera. He focuses on Kubernetes observability and security, contributing backend code and configuration validation to the widely used Project Calico, including multi-range route table parsing and bug fixes. Progressing from intern to senior engineer at Tigera, he combines hands-on systems programming with practical product-facing integrations. Prior roles at Teamwork sharpened his web and integrations skills, giving him a strong full-stack perspective on developer workflows. He holds a First Class Honours BSc in Computer Software Engineering from Cork Institute of Technology. Colleagues know him as a detail-oriented engineer who enjoys untangling subtle configuration and validation challenges in distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS(Hons), Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science - BS(Hons), Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours at Cork Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
configuration-management10
kubernetes-networking10
networking10
go10
apidoc9
cni9
api9
testing8
e-mail6
mime-types6
database6
rsync6
database-replication6
htaccess6
dbi6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calico
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:109 reviews, 61 commits, 37 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on implementing and refactoring configuration parameters and validation logic within the Calico project. The contributions included adding route table range features to Felix configuration, including parsing, validation, and integration with the existing codebase. The changes involved modifying existing code to support multiple route table ranges and to adhere to new validation rules for the configuration parameters. They also addressed bugs related to the parsing of route table ranges.
multi-clustersecuritynetworkingsdnvirtual-network
aaaaaaaalex/calico
Jun 2021 - Feb 2025
Cloud native networking and network security
Contributions:247 pushes, 27 branches in 3 years 8 months
securitynetworkingkubernetesnetwork-securitynetwork
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