Alex Valiushko
Member Of Technical Staff at Tailscale
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Valiushko is a Member of Technical Staff with 14 years of experience building distributed systems, network automation, and security-focused infrastructure, currently at Tailscale after work at AWS on AmazonMQ and RabbitMQ. A pragmatic back-end engineer and former principal at Menlo Security and White Ops, he has shipped core server features such as logging rotation, vhost configuration and operator policies to the widely used RabbitMQ project. He pairs deep networking and systems expertise—shaped by teaching and leading SDN efforts—with hands-on production engineering across cloud and near-real-time inference domains. Known for a voracious appetite for new languages and skunkworks projects, he blends curiosity-driven experimentation with practical, auditable solutions. Based in Victoria, BC, Alex is also a dedicated skydiver and backpacker, traits that mirror his tolerance for calculated risk and layered problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Network and Systems Engineer, Network and Systems Engineer at Computer Academy StepApplied Mathematics and Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Ukrainian State University of Water Management and Natural Resources Application
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
erlang10
messaging10
configuration-management10
rabbitmq10
amqp9
testing9
logging8
policies8
group-policy8
admin7
databases7
database-administration7
database7
clojure6
network-protocol6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 15 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the RabbitMQ server, primarily focusing on enhancements to the logging and vhost configuration. Their work included implementing log file rotation features, adding the ability to set default vhost limits by pattern, and introducing operator policy functionalities. Further contributions involved fixing type signatures and adding a test suite for runtime parameters. The user's changes touched upon core server functionalities and management aspects of the messaging system.
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illotum/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:101 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 9 months
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