Alf Mikula
Site Reliability Manager at Google
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlf Mikula is a Site Reliability Manager at Google with 18 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, production-critical systems. He has built and led engineering organizations—from hands-on teams at EarthLink and the Los Angeles Times to scaling Checkr’s engineering org from 3 people into five teams—bringing strong coaching and hiring discipline. Alf combines deep systems and SRE expertise with software engineering chops (early work in Java, Ruby, and C) and a BS in Computer Science from Caltech. He’s contributed to the well-regarded borgbackup project by strengthening test coverage and pruning logic, demonstrating a practical commitment to reliability in open source. Known for translating operational complexity into repeatable processes, he pairs technical depth with a track record of developing engineering leaders. Based in California, he favors pragmatic engineering improvements that reduce incidents and speed delivery.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at California Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Alief Hastings High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
11reputation
146reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (11)
deduplication10
pytest10
python10
testing10
encryption9
backup9
compression8
git6
postgis6
ssh6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
borgbackup/borg
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alf primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and test coverage for the borgbackup project. Their contributions involved adding new tests to cover edge cases related to archive pruning, specifically addressing scenarios where retention targets aren't met and ensuring the correct retention of the oldest archive. They also fixed existing tests that relied on incorrect assumptions about archive pruning behavior, and documented and added more examples for testing. These changes aimed to improve the reliability and correctness of the borgbackup archiving tool.
pythondedupecompressionsshdeduplication
amikula/rangevote
Mar 2008 - Aug 2009
Contributions:43 commits in 1 year 4 months
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