Alex Loddengaard
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Alex started his career at Google and then as employee #3 at Cloudera. His most recent position was as a solutions architect at Confluent, working on Apache Kafka. He's architected and built apps mostly on the back end—web stacks, data analytics, data pipelines, data engineering, microservices, and streaming ETL. He's also done some simple front-end development, full-stack development, and Android apps. He's willing to work onsite in the Bay Area.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, MacOS, Linux
The most amazing...
...thing I've built was an active-active multi-data center, five gigabytes per second, sub-200 milliseconds data pipeline.
Work Experience
Solutions Architect
Confluent
- Supported Confluent's customers to make them successful with Apache Kafka (operations, deployment, architecture, design, and development).
- Built an active-active, multi-data center, 5 Gbps, sub-200 ms data pipeline.
- Worked with close to 100 companies ranging from high-tech startups to large enterprises.
- Developed data pipelines, microservices, streaming ETL, and streaming analytics.
Founder and CEO
Deep Signal
- Acted as the Entrepreneur in Residence for Innovation Endeavors where I founded and developed the Deep Signal opportunity. Deep Signal was a VC-backed preventative maintenance startup in the oil and gas pipeline space.
- Discovered and developed the business opportunity and product roadmap.
- Led the product and engineering team to deliver the initial product.
Founder and CEO
MemCachier
- Worked on MemCachier, a Heroku add-on that offers Memcached as a service.
- Built the entire infrastructure excluding the cache itself.
- Implemented Ruby on Rails and Stripe for payments.
- Developed and monitored APIs and dashboards.
- Product managed the cache which was a custom implementation of the Memcached protocol, written in Go, and designed for multi-tenancy.
Solutions Architect
Cloudera
- Worked as a product engineer—building tooling and infrastructure in the early days of Apache Hadoop.
- Helped make Cloudera's customers successful with Hadoop (operations, development, training, architecture, and design).
- Was hired as the third employee; joining before "big data" was a term.
Experience
Apache Kafka Client Examples
https://github.com/alexlod/apache-kafka-client-examplesActive-active Multi-data Center, 5 Gigabytes per Second, Sub-200 Millisecond Latency Data Pipeline
Skills
Languages
Java, Python, Ruby
Frameworks
Spring, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Bootstrap, Hadoop
Tools
Kafka Streams, Git, GitHub
Platforms
Apache Kafka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, Linux, MacOS
Other
Software Development, Mega
Libraries/APIs
jQuery
Paradigms
Agile
Storage
PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Couchbase
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Washington - Seattle, WA, USA
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