Alex Suraci
Senior Software Engineer at Dagger
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarAlex Suraci is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD, and backend systems. Currently at Dagger after roles at Stripe and Pivotal/VMware, he blends hands-on engineering with product sensibility from a prior product manager role. He’s an active open-source contributor to high-impact projects like Cloud Foundry, Concourse resources, BuildKit and Dex, with work spanning Docker/build tooling, staging/runtime logic, and robust testing and CI resource improvements. Known for pragmatic fixes—SSH and private-key handling, Docker daemon refinements, and retryable Postgres storage errors—he focuses on reliability and operational resilience in distributed systems. Based in Toronto, he brings deep platform experience and a knack for addressing subtle edge cases that improve stability at scale.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (58)
bosh10
git10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
buildkite10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
api-design10
scripting10
testing10
configuration-management10
cni10
test-framework10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
concourse/git-resource
May 2014 - Jan 2021
tracks commits in a branch of a Git repository
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 183 commits, 79 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the `git-resource` project, a Concourse CI resource for tracking Git commits. Their contributions primarily revolved around improving the resource's functionality and robustness. They addressed issues related to SSH interactions, private key handling, and incorporating metadata. Furthermore, they introduced testing practices and integrated busybox into the build process, contributing to build stability.
commitsgit-repositorytracks
concourse/docker-image-resource
Jun 2014 - May 2021
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Build/Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build/Release EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 216 commits, 82 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the `docker-image-resource`. Their contributions involved enhancing the Docker-related functionality within the resource, including improvements to the check for Docker running, handling of Docker exit logs, and adjusting docker starting methods. They also implemented the core logic for the resource and made changes for handling environments and utilizing the ECR credential helper. This includes improvements to the Docker image, Docker daemon flags, and dependency upgrades.
docker-imagebuildkitdockerdocker-imagesharbor
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