Carl Alexander
Founder at Ymir
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolCarl Alexander is a founder and seasoned technology consultant with 14 years of experience building web platforms, leading engineering teams, and guiding enterprises as a fractional CTO or Director of Engineering. He bootstrapped Ymir, a niche serverless DevOps platform that pushes PHP and WordPress into serverless architectures, and remains one of the few global experts in that space. Carl combines hands-on product development, DevOps, and systems administration with strategic leadership—helping companies modernize legacy systems, implement continuous delivery, and recover from production incidents. He’s an experienced public speaker and author, sharing practical engineering patterns for WordPress and object-oriented PHP, and has monetized that expertise through a successful book. Based in Montreal, he balances consulting engagements with active product work and community-facing transparency, having built Ymir in public while running client-facing advisory work. His background in computer engineering and finance gives him both technical rigor and a pragmatic business perspective when designing scalable, cost-effective solutions.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Applied Sciences, DEC, Applied Sciences at Collège BrébeufBSCE (Hons.), Computer Engineering, BSCE (Hons.), Computer Engineering at Queen's UniversityDES, DES at Collège Jean-EudesCertificate in Finance, Finance, Certificate in Finance, Finance at McGill University
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
turbolinks10
authentication10
ubuntu10
phpredis10
code-analysis10
command-line-tool10
object-cache10
relay10
debian10
data-center10
wordpress10
bundle10
laravel10
trellis10
wordpress-api10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
carlalexander/debops-wordpress-template
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 5 months
wordpress-projectwordpressdebops
ymirapp/php-runtime
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Ymir PHP runtime
Contributions:180 commits, 14 PRs, 243 pushes in 3 years 2 months
wordpressaws-lambdaphpserverlessymir
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