Sam Alba
Co-Founder at Mendral
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Alba is a serial founder and engineering leader with 16 years building developer-facing infrastructure and automation, currently co-founding Mendral to create an always-on AI DevOps Engineer that self-heals CI/CD pipelines. Previously he co-founded Dagger (YC W19), scaling its open-source runtime to widespread adoption and shipping a commercial pipeline observability SaaS before leaving to focus on autonomous delivery. As Docker’s first hire and later VP Engineering, he grew engineering from a handful to 100+ people and led teams that built Docker CE/EE, Desktop, Compose and core open-source components that reshaped modern infrastructure. A hands-on backend and DevOps engineer, his open-source contributions include core work on dagger/dagger and foundational Docker registries and clients. He advises and angel-invests in early-stage startups and is passionate about developer productivity, automation, and engineering cultures that sustain high velocity. Fluent at turning low-level systems work into product-grade platforms, he blends deep technical craftsmanship with company-building experience.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechY Combinator
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
json10
caching10
javascript10
container10
docker10
back-end-development10
redis10
python10
api-design10
clientside10
http10
proxy10
dockers10
distributions10
flask-ask10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hipache/hipache
Jun 2012 - Apr 2014
Hipache: a distributed HTTP and websocket proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:146 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on enhancing the `hipache` proxy's functionality. Their contributions include adding timeout support, improving code quality, and refactoring code. Furthermore, the user refactored the code, extracting Redis interactions into a dedicated `cache.js` module and incorporating an optional LRU cache. They also implemented and fixed various aspects of passive health checks.
golangproxywebsocketwebsocket-proxydistributed
docker-archive/docker-registry
Apr 2013 - Aug 2014
This is **DEPRECATED**! Please go to https://github.com/docker/distribution
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:377 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam focused on enhancing the functionality of the Docker registry by adding features related to configuration, checksum calculations, and authorization. Key contributions included exposing the configuration flavor in the server banner, implementing checksum validation for image layers, and introducing an authorization mechanism for secure access. They also added support for listing image files and made various security and encoding fixes.
docker-distributiondockerdocker-comdistributiondocker-registry
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