Alexander Cafarella
Information Technology Specialist Technician
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Cafarella is an IT specialist and engineer with nine years’ experience spanning hardware design, cloud and endpoint infrastructure, and education-focused end-user computing. He currently manages device lifecycle, Intune-based deployments, endpoint security, and automation for thousands of users in the education sector while running small-business technology operations. A founder of Meshplane and former CIO at Cactive, he blends hands-on product development with strategic infrastructure thinking and a strong belief in open hardware and open source. Comfortable moving between soldering irons and CI/CD pipelines, he often finds software problems have hardware solutions (and vice versa). Colleagues turn to him for stubborn outages because he pairs curiosity with a pragmatic focus on reliability and user experience. Outside work he prototypes physical projects, photographs, and tinkers with cars—reminders that his engineering always aims to produce something tangible and useful.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at RMIT University
Github Skills (23)
discord-js7
discord-bot7
slash-commands6
discord6
nodejs5
qmk-firmware4
prompt-engineering3
ai3
chatgpt3
binaries2
qmk2
firmware2
usb1
keyboard1
atmel1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AlexanderPCafa/refactored-computing-machine
Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
cafarella/cafarella
Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
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