Alexander Jones
System Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexander Jones is a System Development Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency API services and cloud-native systems, currently at AWS in London. He combines deep expertise in Java and Go with hands-on leadership from his time as Head of Cloud Development at mkodo, shipping scalable backend and DevOps solutions. Alexander is an active open-source contributor—helping enhance projects like k8sgpt by improving CLI, Go packages, and CI/CD workflows—which reflects his focus on developer productivity and deployment robustness. He is skilled at performance optimization across cloud stacks and has a track record of turning complex distributed requirements into pragmatic, production-ready services. A University of Leeds computer science graduate, he blends engineering rigor with a taste for practical tooling that gives teams “superpowers” in Kubernetes-based workflows.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Cranleigh SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Leeds
English, Japanese, French, German
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
cli9
docker8
yaml8
dockers8
tooling8
html6
php6
iphone6
python6
intellisense6
facebook6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Giving Kubernetes Superpowers to everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:373 reviews, 797 PRs, 918 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the project by modifying the codebase, including changes to command-line interface (CLI) functionality and adding dependencies. These changes involved the modification of existing files, as well as the addition of new Go packages. The user also contributed to adding and updating workflows, indicating a focus on improving the build, testing, or deployment infrastructure.
aidevopskubernetesllamaopenai
AlexsJones/kubernetes-etcd-cluster
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
A simple kubernetes etcd statefulset
Contributions:24 commits, 10 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 months
etcdstatefulsetkubernetes
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