Alexander Altair
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Altair is a mathematically-grounded software engineer in Berkeley with 12 years of experience building reliable data and networking systems from research prototypes to production pipelines. He applies a background in theoretical AI and formal reasoning to software design, architecture, and automation—shaping clean CI/CD and test infrastructures such as containerized unit testing for the widely used Calico CLI. His career spans data engineering at Grand Rounds (ETL, AWS services, streaming) to core developer work on Project Calico and SDN features at Metaswitch, demonstrating an ability to move between low-level systems and high-level workflows. Curious and concept-driven, he combines rigorous thinking with pragmatic engineering to reduce redundancy, improve observability, and ship maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraHigh School Diploma, Mathematics, High School Diploma, Mathematics at Maine School of Science and MathematicsMathematics, Mathematics at University of MainePhysics, Physics at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWeb Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General Assembly
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Github Skills (27)
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
sh10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
test-automation10
editor9
sublime-text9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calicoctl
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Calico CLI tool
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 202 commits, 45 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and CI/CD processes for the `calicoctl` tool. Their contributions included refactoring test scripts, adding new tests for profile commands and diagnostics, and migrating tests to a more efficient framework. Furthermore, the user containerized the unit tests and ensured a clean build process, integrating tools like `nosetests` and managing test reports within the CI/CD environment. They also made code improvements such as refactoring code variables.
calicocli-toolcli
alexaltair/learn2prog
Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:39 commits in 10 months
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