Summary
Alexander Paransky is a seasoned technology leader with three decades of hands-on software experience and a current focus as Director of Technology Operations at OpenTable, where he drives platform reliability, developer velocity, and observability for global services. He has built and scaled Kubernetes-based PaaS, runtime libraries, and real-time event processing pipelines, blending deep architecture skills in Java/C#/JS with practical operational leadership. Known for turning post-mortems into long-term resilience programs, he bridges infrastructure and product teams to eliminate SRE bottlenecks and promote developer self-service. His background spans high-throughput analytics, distributed systems, and earlier roles leading engineering at Yahoo!, Ticketmaster, and startups, proving an ability to deliver both strategic roadmap and low-level performance optimizations. Alexander pairs strong people management and mentoring with a history of performance tuning (e.g., single-consumer throughput optimizations) and pragmatic tool-building that improves developer experience. Based in California with a BS in Computer Science, he combines founder-like operational pragmatism with enterprise-scale architecture chops.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at California State University, Northridge