Alon Marx is a hands-on development leader with 12 years of experience building and operating large, performance-sensitive distributed systems across advertising tech, cloud storage, and networking domains. Currently leading real-time bidding services at Ubimo (Quotient), he combines low-latency algorithm design, memory and performance optimization, and production incident ownership to meet strict SLA-driven customer demands. His background includes leading infrastructure teams at Informatica and IBM’s cloud storage group, where he contributed significant OpenStack Cinder storage-driver work—implementing CHAP, multi-connection support and consistency group features. A pragmatic systems thinker, he has navigated cross-platform development, global team coordination, and product integrations from embedded devices to cloud services. He holds an MSc in Computer Engineering and is a multi-patent co-author and mentor who brings both deep technical craftsmanship and a systemic vision to fast-moving engineering organizations.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer engineering, BSc. Computer engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
MSc. Computer Engineering, MSc. Computer Engineering at Bar-Ilan University
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:20 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Alon contributed significantly to the OpenStack Cinder project, specifically focusing on the IBM XIV/DS8K storage driver. Their work included implementing CHAP authentication, adding support for volume management, and integrating multi-connection support. Additionally, the user refactored the driver to use the ABCMeta driver model and added features related to consistency groups, including updates and creation from sources.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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Alon Marx - Development Leader, Realtime Activation