Summary
Alexander Høgh is a Staff Software Engineer and team lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-performance systems, now focused on Rust-based systems programming and kernel-level security using eBPF/LSM. He architects and ships production security agents that mitigate CVEs at the kernel source, while leading an 8-person team through multi-thousand-hour projects from design to deployment. His background spans managing 100+ Linux servers with Puppet/Ansible, custom Nginx/OpenResty modules, Kubernetes, and zero-trust networking across Hetzner, GCloud, and AWS. A prolific open-source contributor with 50+ Rust projects, he brings practical experience in blockchain infrastructure (Solana ecosystem), quantitative trading tools, and SIMD performance optimization. He combines rapid production debugging and SRE expertise with full-stack roots (PHP/Python/JS) and a history of delivering ecommerce platforms for high-revenue brands. Outside work he publishes technical deep-dives on helius.dk, often exploring SIMD, hot reloading, and Solana development.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Aalborg University
Self-educated | AWS - ACloudGuru | Design Patterns | Clean Architecture
Danish, English