Alexander Trelore is a software engineer based in Bristol with 8 years' experience building backend and DevOps solutions, primarily using Go and Rust. He contributes to production-grade open-source projects such as replicatedhq/kots, where he has improved Helm charts, implemented license entitlement handling, enhanced CLI backup/restore tooling, and patched a critical security dependency. Comfortable across cloud-native and operational concerns, he focuses on delivering reliable, secure systems that bridge developer workflows and runtime operations. A Leeds Computer Science graduate, he combines pragmatic engineering with a penchant for tightening operational security and usability in distributed Kubernetes environments.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Leeds
KOTS provides the framework, tools and integrations that enable the delivery and management of 3rd-party Kubernetes applications, a.k.a. Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) Software.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:16 reviews, 14 commits, 19 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the backend and operational aspects of the KOTS project. Their work included fixing bugs in helm charts, implementing features to handle license entitlements, and modifying the codebase to collect namespaces from flags. They also made changes to the CLI tools for backup, restore, and configuration management. Furthermore, the user addressed a critical security vulnerability by upgrading a dependency.
GraphQL, Okteto, Playwright, Go... All the good stuff
Contributions:4 PRs, 95 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
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Alexander Trelore - Software Engineer at BJSS Limited