Alireza Furutanpey
University Assistant at Technische Universität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolAlireza Furutanpey is a research-oriented software engineer and University Assistant at TU Wien with four years of professional experience bridging academic research and production engineering. He combines PhD-level computer science work and teaching—supervising theses, lecturing labs, and managing student teams—with hands-on backend and DevOps contributions in open source and industry. Notably, he contributed bug fixes and AWS-consistent behavior improvements to the high-profile LocalStack project, patching its Moto mock to handle region headers and refining S3 routing and service lifecycle management. Comfortable moving between research visits across Europe and applied roles (including a stint at AWS), he excels at turning complex distributed-systems issues into robust, testable infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs rigorous academic methods with pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable cloud tooling.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
German, English
Github Skills (17)
docker10
python10
back-end-development10
testing10
dockers10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
s3-bucket10
kin9
cloud-infrastructure9
amazon-kinesis9
devops9
dynamodb9
aws-cloudformation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
localstack/localstack
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 14 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alireza primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the LocalStack project, specifically addressing issues related to S3 host-based routing, including refactoring of routing logic. They also made significant contributions to patching Moto (LocalStack's mocking framework) to include the region header for GET and HEAD requests, ensuring consistency with AWS behaviors. Additional commits included adding CloudFormation properties for SNS topics and implementing lifecycle methods for restarting DynamoDB and Kinesis services, highlighting a focus on service management and infrastructure.
serverless-cloudpythonaws-cloudtestingserverless
rezafuru/the-fool
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 11 months
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