Alex Trotta
Platform Engineer - Software Development Life Cycle
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Trotta is a platform engineer and modern C++ developer with 7 years of experience building maintainable, high-performance systems and developer tooling. He specializes in C++/Python interop, build systems, and package management—having become primary maintainer of CMake and Conan workflows at Glodon and contributing recipes to the prominent conan-center-index. Alex combines deep attention to low-level details (GIL management, bindings, compiler compatibility) with practical improvements to developer velocity like reducing rebuilds and unifying CI across repos. Now at Modular, he applies that expertise to production-quality infrastructure for heterogeneous AI compute. A quick learner with a math background, he’s equally comfortable prototyping complex cross-language systems (e.g., a Python-to-C++ node graph rewrite) and improving the hidden plumbing that makes teams productive.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at East Carolina University
Github Skills (14)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
cpp-library10
c-language10
cpp10
recipe10
cprogramming-language10
package-management10
dependency-analysis10
conan10
cmake9
pybind118
7zip8
vulkan6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/conan-center-index
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:152 reviews, 2 commits, 57 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to recipes for the ConanCenter repository, focusing on package management for C++ libraries and their dependencies. They addressed issues related to dependency management, compiler compatibility, and build system configurations within the Conan ecosystem. Their work involved modifying Conan recipes, patching source code, and adding support for new versions of libraries like Vulkan-loader, stduuid, 7zip, pybind11, liburing, tinyalsa, vulkan-memory-allocator, and others.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
Ahajha/crossSolver
May 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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