Alexander Martinez
Senior Software Engineer at Yelp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Martinez is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with eight years of experience building production-grade backend infrastructure, stream processing systems, and ML-driven computer vision solutions. He combines deep academic strengths in mathematics with hands-on expertise in MySQL/Vitess deployments, Kubernetes-based PaaS work (notably contributions to Yelp’s paasta vitess tooling), and high-throughput streaming at scale. At Yelp he led database reliability upgrades and automation for complex MySQL/Vitess workflows, and earlier helped stand up an ML org and authored patent-grade research in computer vision. Comfortable across Java, Python, C++ and cloud-native tooling, he focuses today on secure, reliable big-data backends that bridge research-grade models and production constraints. Colleagues know him as someone who moves fluidly between low-level systems engineering and applied ML, often surfacing novel problem formulations informed by rigorous math.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
paas10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
vitess9
infrastructure9
testing8
cicd8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the PaaSTA platform by developing vitess_tools.py, which includes functions for loading CR (Custom Resource) and managing Vitess deployments. They fixed tests and improved code formatting. Additionally, the user interacted with testing infrastructure and deployment steps, as demonstrated by their commits related to bounce steps. The commits reflect knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization, and potentially CI/CD processes.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
alexanderjulianmartinez/Data-Analysis-Python
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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