Alexander Gallego
Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Gallego is a founder and CEO with nine years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, currently leading Redpanda Data to deliver a Kafka-compatible, C++-based streaming platform that removes JVM and ZooKeeper complexity for mission-critical workloads. He combines deep systems engineering—stemming from earlier roles founding Concord Systems and leading platform infrastructure at Akamai—with hands-on product development and scaling experience from being the first engineer at YieldMo. Alexander’s work emphasizes pragmatic performance: single-binary deployments, API compatibility, and real-world throughput gains rather than academic benchmarks. He is an active contributor to open-source tooling, with practical back-end contributions to projects like Discord Bot Maker mods, reflecting a willingness to dive into bug fixes and feature implementations across ecosystems. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a computer science education from NYU, he blends entrepreneurial drive with low-level engineering rigor.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
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Github Skills (6)
bots10
javascript10
debugging9
pip6
mozilla-deepspeech6
python6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dbm-network/mods
Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
User-made modifications and improvements to Discord Bot Maker.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements for the Discord bot maker modifications. This included correcting typos, fixing event handling, and updating action configurations. The user also created new action files, like the "Add Item to List," and updated existing action implementations to resolve errors, adding functionality, and fixing missing parameters. The contributions demonstrate expertise in modifying and extending the core functionality of a Discord bot framework.
discord-botdiscorddbm-modsbot-makerdbm
RediPanda/nekonii.github.io
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
NekoNii Landing Page
Contributions:3 PRs, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
javascriptreact
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