Alexander Rudd
Lead Backend Engineer at CCP
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexander Rudd is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Glasgow with 10 years' experience building scalable, event-driven online services for games and large-scale platforms. Currently at CCP Games London he designs persistence, coordination and social systems for a new sci-fi shooter using Golang, gRPC, AWS and Terraform, and is steering a move toward Event Sourcing informed by Domain Driven Design. Previously he led cloud engineering for Sony's game services platform, automating secure, observable AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Prometheus and Grafana. An active open-source contributor, he has deep distributed systems experience — exemplified by contributions to the Liftbridge message streaming project where he improved subscription stop semantics and commitlog robustness. Collectedly, he blends hands-on backend engineering, DevOps practices and clear domain-focused communication to make complex systems easier and more enjoyable to operate.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st (81%), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st (81%) at The Nottingham Trent UniversityWhitley Bay High School
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Github Skills (16)
golang10
streaming10
distributed-systems10
go10
server10
message-queue10
grpc10
server-side10
http6
elasticsearch6
boto6
aws-cloudformation6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
ocsp6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
liftbridge-io/liftbridge
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 27 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on implementing and refining core features related to message stream subscriptions. They added logic for handling subscription stop positions, including support for different stop conditions like offset and timestamp. Furthermore, the user addressed debugging issues in the API and made improvements to the commitlog. They also updated the project's dependencies, including the Go Liftbridge client and gRPC.
golangfault-tolerantnatsliftbridgefault
alexrudd/gomdb
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Message DB Go client
Contributions:4 releases, 17 commits, 8 PRs in 8 months
golanggo-dbevent-sourcinggo-clientmessage-db
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