Alexander Lais
Development Expert at SAP
Bensheim, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Lais is a development expert and software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, high-performance networking and DevOps solutions, now focused on managing data center hardware and networks via Kubernetes at SAP. He has led IPv6/dual-stack efforts for Cloud Foundry and contributed to core open-source routing projects like gorouter, improving route service hairpinning and hostname matching. Comfortable both as a hands-on implementer and a project lead, he blends backend networking expertise with operational ownership of large routing stacks for SAP BTP. His background spans solutions architecture, tooling, and mentoring across industries including aerospace-related contracts, reflecting broad systems thinking. Known for refining brittle networking behavior into robust, maintainable code, he brings a pragmatic eye for developer ergonomics and cross-team collaboration. Based in Bensheim, Germany, he pairs formal advanced computer science training with a talent for turning complex infrastructure needs into practical, repeatable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Advanced Computer Science (ACM), Master of Science - MS Advanced Computer Science (ACM) at Hochschule Furtwangen
Github Skills (7)
go10
cloud-foundry10
backend10
back-end-development10
testing9
go-testing9
app-platform9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/gorouter
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
CF Router
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the Cloud Foundry gorouter project by implementing and refining route service functionality. Their work included refactoring code related to host name sanitization and wildcard matching, enhancing the robustness of the route service hairpinning feature. They also addressed code review feedback to improve the quality and maintainability of the codebase. These changes involved modifying the route service handler and related test files.
cloud-foundryconcoursecff-wg-app-runtime-platformcloudfoundrypcf
peanball/logseq-dynamic-lookup
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
A Logseq plugin to dynamically look up another page's property values and place them where you need. Great with macros.
Contributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 74 PRs in 23 days
placelookmacroslogseqgreat
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