Alex Z
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Ireland
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Top SchoolAlex Z is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently at Google where he focuses on making machine learning platforms reliable and automating operational work at scale. He combines deep systems and systems-programming expertise—Golang for fast development and C/C++ for high-performance needs—with strong experience in distributed systems, service reliability, and automation. His background spans research-grade cryptography to production backend and networking, and he has contributed notable low-level fixes and optimizations to the widely used GopherJS project to help Go run in browsers. Comfortable across the stack, he also builds simple, pragmatic UIs and values long-lived products with continuous evolution over short-term outsourcing work. Based in Ireland with a master’s in computer science, Alex is selective about roles and prefers positions where he can continuously improve systems rather than switch frequently. An understated tinkerer, he pairs academic cryptography experience with production SRE rigor to teach machines to do the heavy lifting.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Новосибирский Государственный Университет (НГУ)High School, High School at СУНЦ НГУBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
English, Russian
Github Skills (13)
reflections10
reflection10
go10
runtimes9
system-programming9
low-level-programming9
low-level9
type-checking8
code-optimization8
type-check8
go-modules7
javascript6
webassembly5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gopherjs/gopherjs
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
A compiler from Go to JavaScript for running Go code in a browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 255 reviews, 393 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex made significant contributions to the `gopherjs/gopherjs` repository by implementing or updating various low-level features required for supporting Go 1.16 standard library compatibility. This included fixing and improving support for packages like `syscall`, `time`, `sync`, `net/http`, and `reflect`, with the aim of ensuring that Go code compiled by GopherJS runs correctly in a browser environment. Furthermore, the user addressed several bugs and introduced optimizations within the codebase to address stack overflow issues.
golangbrowserjavascriptgocompiler
nevkontakte/gcb-js
Feb 2014 - May 2022
JavaScript reincarnation of Google Cache Browser
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 years 4 months
browserjavascriptbrowser-cachecachegoogle-cache
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