Alexander Palaistras
Senior Systems Engineer at reMarkable
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Palaistras is a Senior Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing large-scale web platforms, currently at reMarkable after leading systems work at Cloudflare. He specializes in migrating monolithic PHP stacks to performant Go microservices, designing resilient IAM and DNS pipelines that handle millions of requests daily, and standardizing observability with Prometheus and Grafana. A pragmatic team lead and platform architect, he has driven measurable improvements—like 150% faster ad delivery and major performance gains through caching and bespoke frameworks—while keeping code minimal, readable, and well-documented. An active open-source contributor, he’s implemented core PHP bindings for Go and contributed array and typed variable support with thorough testing, reflecting a deep systems-level understanding. Based in England, he prefers tabs for indentation and brings a quiet, detail-oriented approach to solving cross-team architectural challenges.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School of Sparta
English, Greek
Github Skills (5)
c1710
php10
go10
c1110
testing9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
deuill/go-php
Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
PHP bindings for the Go programming language (Golang)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 149 commits, 48 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to core functionality within the PHP bindings for the Go programming language. They refactored the context handling methods, moving the write method to context.c and consolidating related code. Key contributions include adding variable bindings for integers, floats, booleans, and strings to the context, along with associated testing. They also refactored and organized the tests and added array support.
golangphp-bindingsphpprogramming-languagelanguage-bindings
deuill/sleepy-client
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
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