Alexander Fenster
Software Engineer at Pure Storage
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Fenster is a versatile software engineer with 12+ years building developer-facing infrastructure, most recently publishing idiomatic Google Cloud client libraries and joining Pure Storage in 2024. His career ranges from compiler QA at Intel and Linux kernel troubleshooting at Parallels to designing distributed key-value storage tooling at Microsoft, reflecting a habit of changing focus every few years to solve new classes of problems. At Google he led code generation, CI/CD and multi-language client library work that millions of users consume via npm/pip packages, and he contributes to well-known OSS projects like protobuf.js and grpc-node. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills with a knack for untangling cross-team, ambiguous engineering challenges and improving developer experience. Outside work he maintains hobby projects on GitHub and prefers thoughtful recruiting outreach—he even asks recruiters to include the word "asparagus" to show they read his note. Based in Mountain View, he brings pragmatic generalist expertise for systems that must be reliable, maintainable, and broadly consumable.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Mathematics Computer Science Programming, Specialist Mathematics Computer Science Programming at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Russian, English
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Github Skills (73)
google-cloud-platform10
google-authentication10
testing10
circleci10
javas10
automation10
build-automation10
google-auth10
javascript10
protocol-buffers10
data-serialization10
api10
typescripts10
githubaction-workflow10
protobuf10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/nodejs-speech
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
This repository is deprecated. All of its content and history has been moved to googleapis/google-cloud-node.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 27 reviews, 52 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's contributions focused on updating and generating GAPIC code, specifically for the v1p1beta1 version of the Speech API. This involved regenerating code and making updates related to timeouts and versioning. Further work included generating the GAPIC code, incorporating new features, and updating metadata. The user also made code changes including setting up a nightly build in CircleCI.
js-clientgoogle-cloud-speechnode-jsspeech-to-textjavascript
googleapis/nodejs-dialogflow
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
This repository is deprecated. All of its content and history has been moved to googleapis/google-cloud-node.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 21 reviews, 38 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's commits primarily focus on improving the build and release processes of the project. This includes removing support for older Node.js versions, integrating support for nightly builds, and updating the build configuration. Furthermore, the user has made modifications to the CI/CD configuration files and build scripts, indicating work on automation and improving the overall developer experience. The user also made modifications to the test files.
js-clientuser-interfacegoogle-apiconversationalnode-js
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