Alex Restifo
Site Reliability Engineer at SpaceX
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Restifo is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer-friendly platforms, currently supporting Starlink at SpaceX. He specializes in making complex systems reliable and observable—wrangling Kubernetes, optimizing CI/CD, and automating ops so teams avoid late-night firefighting. Previously at DataChat he led a migration to object storage that cut costs by 80%, implemented enterprise observability across microservices, and designed a Python code obfuscation solution for secure on-prem deployments. Comfortable writing backend code in Python, C, and Go, Alex prizes “invisible infrastructure” that simplifies developer workflows. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines systems-level rigor with an operator’s mindset to deliver resilient, production-grade services at scale.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (111)
regression10
computation10
r10
catboost10
kaggle10
classification10
cpu10
cuda10
data-mining10
gradient9
gradient-boosting9
lightgbm9
high-performance9
scalable9
docker-desktop9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
a-re/APProgramming
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:181 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
a-re/CNes
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:82 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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