Alexander Graf
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Graf is a Team Engineering Lead and seasoned infrastructure engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, Docker-first cloud systems and CI/CD pipelines for high-availability products in venture capital and private equity environments. He has driven test-driven development, increased test coverage to 95%, and introduced fully automated Docker deployments on AWS (including GovCloud), raising stability to >99.9% for mobile-backend services. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails, PHP and Python, Alexander blends deep operations expertise with a background in graphics and web design that informs pragmatic, user-conscious engineering. He contributes to open-source container samples—improving HTTP header and caching behavior in Kubernetes-backed projects—and brings hands-on leadership from founding a web agency to leading teams at Canva and high-scale mobile apps. Outside of core engineering he applies technical skills to environmental impact work as a freelance 3D photogrammetry expert for coral reef monitoring.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universität Innsbruck
Italian, English, German
Github Skills (17)
caching10
apidoc10
http-header10
go10
api10
java9
javas9
docker8
dockers8
kubernetes7
kubernetes-pods7
docker-compose6
sample-data5
sampler5
sample-rate5
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
dockersamples/wordsmith
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Sample project with Docker containers running under Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the project by implementing features related to HTTP header management and caching. They added functionality to pass through headers in the Go dispatcher, addressing a potential issue. Additionally, the user modified the Java-based API to include cache control headers and prevent caching under certain circumstances. They also merged in changes related to merging and refactoring the project code.
docker-containerkubernetesdockerswarmdocker-compose
otherguy/php-currency-api
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Standardized wrapper for popular currency rate APIs. Currently supports Fixer.io, CurrencyLayer, Open Exchange Rates, ExchangeRatesAPI, Frankfurter, CurrencyAPI and fastFOREX.
Contributions:11 releases, 3 reviews, 72 commits in 1 year 6 months
currency-apicurrencycurrency-exchange-ratescomposer-packagephp-library
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