Alex S
Lead, Platform Engineering (DevOps, Cloud, SRE)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex S is a Lead Platform Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently leading Platform Engineering (DevOps, Cloud, SRE) at Nesto Cloud. He specializes in Go, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Pulumi/Terraform-style IaC, and observability stacks, and has driven initiatives that improved release velocity and incident response while centralizing privileged access. Alex combines deep platform craft—authoring CD tooling, custom K8s resources, and automation—with a strong product mindset from prior work on developer portals and enablement teams. He has a track record of scaling microservices ecosystems across GCP and AWS and making developer workflows self-service. Outside of engineering he’s an experienced student-leader and organizer who has managed large budgets and launched tech solutions for associations, reflecting strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder management. He still keeps the maker spirit from his Lego Mindstorms days, applying curiosity to emerging tools and automation that reduce cognitive load for teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme et sanction des études au secondaire, Diplôme et sanction des études au secondaire at Kuper Academy High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering: General Program, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering: General Program at Concordia University3-Year DEC Computer Science, 3-Year DEC Computer Science at Vanier College
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
digital-signage10
coredns10
gcp10
dns10
composer10
dns-record10
dotnet10
continuous-delivery10
laravel10
pulumi10
api10
helm10
pipeline10
golang10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
alexstojda/application
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 187 pushes, 75 branches in 6 months
skiracerdude/eCommerceCaseStudy-TheSocialNetwork
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:26 PRs, 120 pushes, 53 branches in 11 months
spring-bootjavaecommerce
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