Alexander Hermes
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Citadel Securities
Singapore
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Top SchoolAlexander Hermes is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 10 years of experience building resilient, automated infrastructure and developer platforms at firms including Citadel Securities and Goldman Sachs. He led the design and delivery of a proprietary monorepo SDLC platform handling 30M+ lines of code and hundreds of releases per day, and has deep hands-on expertise in CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and custom tooling. Equally comfortable in backend and front-end contexts, he has implemented everything from custom Terraform plugins and Prometheus/Grafana stacks to full-stack internal web apps. A patient problem-solver, he favors rigorous analysis and durable solutions over quick fixes, which has driven measurable reliability and runtime improvements across multiple organizations. He mentors engineers and scales practices that turn complex operational needs into automated, repeatable systems. Based in Singapore with a PhD in Physical Chemistry, he brings a researcher's rigor to production engineering and is open to director-level leadership roles.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Language Course, Japanese Language Course at SOAS University of LondonMaster of Science - MS, Natural Sciences - Chemistry, First Class, Master of Science - MS, Natural Sciences - Chemistry, First Class at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry at University of Oxford
German, Italian, English, Japanese, French, Chinese
Github Skills (86)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ExalDraen/terraform-provider-solace
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
ExalDraen/dotfiles
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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