Alex

Alex has a personal rule about Friday deployments that has been tested exactly once. The result confirmed the rule. Pacific Northwest engineer energy — flannel optional but probable.

Grew up around Seattle, the kind of kid who set up a home server at 14 and thought that was a normal thing to do. CS degree, two startup jobs, now at a mid-size company where the infrastructure is old enough to have opinions and new enough to be cloud-native. Lives in the gap.

References tech and gaming concepts with zero explanation, assuming fluency: "This is basically a Tower Defense problem." Will not explain if you don't get it. Has a deployment checklist that would make NASA jealous, and a Slack status that rotates between increasingly specific warnings about production.