Alexander Birkner
Technical Lead at GPORTAL
Spenge, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Birkner is a technical lead with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating high-performance game server hosting platforms and cloud infrastructure. He has driven backend, API, and network engineering at scale—from OpenStack-based clouds and Cisco/Juniper networks to bespoke bare-metal solutions for multiplayer games. At Nitrado he built core hosting backends and enterprise tooling, and at GPORTAL he led the design of a B2B platform that helps studios scale multiplayer titles with cost-efficient, low-latency infrastructure. Equally comfortable in Golang, Python, Ruby on Rails and DevOps tooling, he blends software engineering with deep operational know-how to deliver reliable, production-grade systems. Based in Spenge, Germany, he combines formal electrical engineering training with a decade-plus of game-hosting expertise—an uncommon mix that informs both low-level network decisions and higher-level platform architecture. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical leadership that moves projects from prototype to resilient, customer-facing services.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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German, English
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Github Skills (200)
chat10
php-library10
ecosystem10
init10
infrastructure-management10
api10
dkim10
linode10
cloud-init10
openstack-api10
openid-connect10
bitbucket10
network-automation10
package-manager10
webrtc10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
G-PORTAL/switchmgr-go
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
A simple switch manager, written in Go
Contributions:4 reviews, 23 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 8 months
fiberstoregolangjuniper-junos
nitrado/NitrAPI
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
Nitrado RESTful API
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 1 year 4 months
apinitradorestfulnitrapinodejs
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