Alfred Landrum
Software Design Engineer at Temporal Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlfred Landrum is a seasoned software design engineer with 14+ years building low-level networking, distributed systems, and cloud-native SaaS backends, currently contributing to Temporal Technologies from San Francisco. He blends deep systems expertise in C/C++ and kernel networking with modern Go-driven work across Docker, Kubernetes, and the CNCF ecosystem, having architected production SaaS stacks and telemetry pipelines. As a former VP of Engineering at Brim and Technical Director at Sysdig, he has led teams shipping desktop and SaaS products, integrating Prometheus/Cortex and container security features. His background uniquely spans enterprise sales engineering and technical leadership—six years in field roles supporting customers on six continents—so he pairs engineering decisions with customer and go-to-market insight. Active in open source, he’s contributed backend and full-stack improvements to projects like Zed/ZUI and Temporal, including zq tooling and zqd integration. Collected experience from kernel networking to SaaS orchestration gives him a practical knack for turning complex protocols and telemetry into reliable, operable services.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering, Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (29)
javascript10
npm10
electron10
testing10
distributed-systems10
workflow-engine10
micro10
go10
microarchitecture10
nodejs10
orchestration10
microservices10
metric10
maintenance9
data-visualizations9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
brimdata/super
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
An analytics database that puts JSON and relational tables on equal footing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 425 reviews, 148 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alfred primarily focused on updating documentation and making code adjustments to the zq command. They made changes to code in the zq command line tool, including updates to the zq.go file and the zql.js file, indicating involvement in back-end functionality and the query language. The user also made contributions related to code changes, including migrating codebases from mccanne/zq to brimsec/zq, suggesting code maintenance and updates to other components within the system.
lakejsonpathdataframesstructuredsinger
brimdata/zui
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
Zui is a powerful desktop application for exploring and working with data. The official front-end to the Zed lake.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 47 reviews, 52 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alfred's contributions primarily involve enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the `zui` desktop application, which interacts with the Zed lake. They implemented features for downloading and integrating external dependencies, specifically the `zqd` binary and related tools like `zeek`. The user also worked on configuring the application's build and deployment processes, including CI/CD and platform-specific configurations. They demonstrated proficiency in modifying both the front-end (UI) and back-end (zqd integration) aspects of the application, along with setup for different operating systems.
desktop-applicationreactdataelectronstructured
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