Alex Varju
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Anthology Inc
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Varju is a Principal Software Engineer with 26 years of hands-on experience evolving one of the earliest commercial LMS products into a global, cloud-native SaaS platform. He specializes in the less-visible but high-leverage areas—CI/CD, build systems, infrastructure migrations, cost optimization, and cross-team glue that accelerates delivery and reduces technical debt. Having stayed with the same product family through multiple acquisitions and architectural eras, he brings rare institutional memory that informs pragmatic modernization decisions across legacy-and-modern boundaries. His recent work includes serverless microservices, autoscaling and reserved-capacity strategies, and migrating services between Kubernetes and AWS Fargate/ECS with full IaC rebuilds. Alex contributes to automation tooling in public projects like Homebrew cask updates, reflecting a focus on reproducible developer environments and release automation. Based in Richmond, BC, he combines platform-level engineering with an operator’s attention to cost, compliance, and developer productivity.
26 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (21)
homebrew-cask10
ruby10
homebrew10
automation10
management10
version-control10
automations10
versioning10
testing9
jenkins6
eclipse6
playframework6
hudson6
continuous-integration6
scala6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
💀 Alternate versions of Casks (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily updated Cask files for IntelliJ IDEA EAP versions within the Homebrew Cask repository. Their contributions focused on modifying Ruby files to reflect new versions, SHA256 checksums, and homepage URLs for various IntelliJ IDEA EAP releases. The work involved maintaining and updating the Cask definitions to ensure the latest versions of the software are available through Homebrew. These commits directly support the automation of software installation and version management for IntelliJ IDEA.
caskscaskhomebrewalternate
varju/typescript-node-mocha-example
Sep 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 3 months
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