Alix Cook
Software Engineer at Metronome
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlix Cook is a software engineer based in Denver with five years of professional experience building backend systems and test automation for cloud-native and high-scale environments. Having worked at companies from AppNexus to Ambassador Labs and currently Metronome, Alix specializes in integrating and validating core functionality in distributed systems and API gateways. Notably, contributions to the popular Emissary-Ingress project show hands-on expertise with Envoy-based authentication and rate-limiting, including protocol migrations and robust test coverage. Trained in mathematics and computer science at Columbia, Alix brings a rigorous, test-first mindset to engineering problems and a knack for surfacing subtle interoperability issues before they reach production.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
go10
envoyproxy10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
testing10
api-design9
integrations9
grpc9
api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 releases, 223 reviews, 738 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alix made several commits focused on improving the authentication and rate limiting features within the Envoy-based API gateway. This involved switching protocol versions, updating test cases, and adding new tests for RateLimitService. Furthermore, the user demonstrated proficiency in testing frameworks by modifying existing tests and adding assertions for expected header values and responses. Additionally, the user contributed to the integration and verification of core functionalities.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
acookin/ambassador
May 2021 - May 2021
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Contributions:23 releases, 1 review, 118 PRs in 9 days
api-gatewayapienvoy-proxyenvoyproxy
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