Summary
Alexander Simchuk is a software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience in systems engineering and automation, currently working at Intel in Portland, Oregon. He combines production software development with deep Unix sysadmin skills, gained through long-term volunteer work managing servers, Puppet automation, and mentoring at the Computer Action Team. His background includes datacenter hardware maintenance, scripting to automate operational tasks, and building user-facing tools in C# during earlier internships. Comfortable across the stack, he routinely compiles packages from source, integrates git-based workflows, and supports internal web development teams. Colleagues rely on him for dependable troubleshooting and pragmatic solutions that bridge development and operations. Outside work he brings a broad curiosity—interests in strategy games and the arts inform his methodical yet creative approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Portland State University
English, Ukrainian