Alexander Savchuk is a Principal Engineer and platform-focused technologist with 11+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems and data platforms that serve millions of users. He combines hands-on expertise across Kafka/event streaming, Kubernetes, Terraform/Helm, CI/CD and observability with SRE practices to drive reliable, automated delivery both on-prem and in AWS. At Westpac and Xero he led platform projects, championed secrets and incident practices, and created team knowledge-sharing patterns that scaled across organisations. A pragmatic generalist, he shifts comfortably between infrastructure-as-code, deployment scripting (PowerShell/bash) and designing data pipelines, and he’s authored a Terraform video course to teach others Infrastructure as Code. Based in Wellington, he prefers remote roles with a high degree of autonomy and impact beyond pure coding.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Information Systems & e-Commerce, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Information Systems & e-Commerce at Victoria University of Wellington
Certificate Horticulture, Certificate Horticulture at Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Master of Arts - MA Cultural Anthropology, Master of Arts - MA Cultural Anthropology at European University at St. Petersburg
Contributions:12 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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Alexander Savchuk - Principal Engineer at Westpac New Zealand