Alexander Willemsma
Staff Security Engineer at Smile.io
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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SeniorAlexander Willemsma is a Staff Security Engineer with 12 years of experience building and securing scalable SaaS infrastructure at Smile.io, where he progressed from web support and SRE leadership to staff-level security stewardship. He specializes in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, and operational databases (Postgres, MySQL, Redis) and applies SRE rigor to security through policies, tooling, and pragmatic implementations that protect merchant and customer data. Comfortable leading distributed teams, he pairs strong remote-work communication with hands-on systems engineering to ship maintainable, deadline-driven code. His background running a web agency and early work on large social sites like Couchsurfing reflect a long-standing appetite for practical, internet-scale problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (110)
pg-search10
ruby10
sidekiq10
trigrams10
background-processing10
metaphone10
shoryuken10
multi-search10
amazon-sqs9
postgresql9
concurrent-ruby9
ruby-kafka9
xml-parser9
aws-sdk-ruby9
xml-serialization9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
undergroundwebdesigns/smile-infra-2.0-dotfiles
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
joatuapp/joatu-v2
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
The JoatU application, version 2. Written in Ruby on Rails.
Contributions:309 commits, 23 PRs, 266 pushes in 1 year 2 months
ruby-on-railssharingvolunteerruby
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