Bryan Alves
Principal Software Engineer, Site Reliability at Forward Financing
Northborough, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Alves is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in site reliability with 13 years of experience building scalable, maintainable web systems. He blends object-oriented application design with pragmatic infrastructure work—database tuning, memcached, message queuing, and AMQP—to keep high-traffic services performant and resilient. At PatientsLikeMe he founded the platform team, led GC tuning that improved Ruby response times by ~25%, and implemented automated provisioning with Terraform and Chef. His background spans startups and agencies where he designed message-brokered, multi-tenant infrastructures and pushed practical operational best practices. Now based in Northborough, MA, he applies hands-on engineering to bridge development and operations, prioritizing long-term architecture and measurable performance gains. Bryan’s not just an SRE; he’s a developer-turned-architect who still digs into garbage collectors and query plans to squeeze real-world improvements.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Western New England University
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bryanalves/credit_ledger
May 2017 - Feb 2024
Contributions:34 PRs, 55 pushes, 34 branches in 6 years 9 months
patientslikeme/post_pusher
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
Automatically runs tasks after deploying a release
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 8 months
deploymentdeployingruns
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