Summary
Alex Zhilyakov is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with two decades of hands-on infrastructure and networking experience, currently helping build a better cloud at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He progressed from regional ISP engineer to Fortune 500 infrastructure architect, blending deep operational expertise across servers, SAN storage, VoIP, and large-scale automation. Alex excels at turning visions into repeatable, secure architectures—designing orchestration suites, Ansible/Tower deployments, and storage migration strategies that cut costs and simplify operations. Comfortable with both low-level troubleshooting and high-level strategy, he has led cross-functional teams through complex migrations, compliance work, and data center builds. Based in Greater Boston, he combines mathematical rigor from a master’s in math and software with a pragmatic focus on observability, reliability, and infrastructure-as-code. An understated strength is his ability to bridge business cases and technical trade-offs, ensuring solutions deliver measurable operational and financial impact.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Math and Software, Masters, Math and Software at Ulyanovsk State University