Alex Cunha
Summary
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SeniorAlexandre Cunha is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur based in San Diego, currently leading ZBRA as CEO after more than a decade guiding the company through technical and business growth. He blends hands-on expertise in cloud architecture, performance engineering and software delivery with strategic leadership, having progressed from project manager and CTO roles to run operations and client relationships. Alexandre is an active open-source contributor, notably enhancing Locust's failure-rate and failure-per-second metrics to improve load-testing observability. His track record includes co-founding and building MOD Devices’ cloud services and CI/CD pipelines, and delivering enterprise-grade integration and BI systems for major clients. Known for scaling teams of 15+ on complex, business-critical projects, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with a practical focus on measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
loadtest10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
locust10
load-testing10
python10
performance-testing10
javascript9
http8
testing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
locustio/locust
May 2017 - Nov 2019
Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer / Performance EngineerContributions:2 PRs, 8 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to enhancing the Locust load testing framework. They implemented features for tracking and displaying failure rates in the user interface and statistics. Additionally, the user added tests to validate the functionality of the failure-per-second metrics. The contributions involved modifications to the core statistics calculation and display logic, as well as frontend updates to visualize the new data, leading to improved performance analysis capabilities.
loadtestpythonlocustload-testingperformance-testing
alercunha/adventofcode
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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