- Solutions Architect2015 - PRESENTConfluent
- 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.
Technologies: Kafka - Founder and CEO2013 - 2015Deep 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.
Technologies: None - Founder and CEO2012 - 2013MemCachier
- 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.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Couchbase, AWS - Solutions Architect2008 - 2010Cloudera
- 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.
Technologies: Hadoop
Alex Loddengaard
San Francisco, CA, United States
Member since November 4, 2015
Alex started his career at Google and then as employee #3 at Cloudera. His most 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.
Alex is now available for hire
Portfolio
- ConfluentKafka
- Deep SignalNone
- MemCachierRuby on Rails, Couchbase, AWS
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), 8 years
- Apache Kafka, 3 years
- Kafka Streams, 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Linux, mac, Git
The most amazing...
...thing I've built was an active-active multi-data center, 5 gigabytes per second, sub-200 milliseconds data pipeline.
Employment
Experience
- Apache Kafka Client Examples (Development)https://github.com/alexlod/apache-kafka-client-examples
When I'm working with Confluent customers, often I walk them through Apache Kafka client examples. This repository contains some example Java clients.
- Active-active Multi-data Center, 5 Gigabytes per Second, Sub-200 Millisecond Latency Data Pipeline (Development)
I architected, implemented, deployed, and operated an active-active multi-data center, 5 gigabytes per second, sub-200 millisecond latency data pipeline for a large technology company. The proof-of-concept was a success.
Skills
- LanguagesJava, Ruby, Python
- ToolsKafka Streams, Git, GitHub
- PlatformsApache Kafka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku
- FrameworksRuby on Rails (RoR), Bootstrap
- Libraries/APIsjQuery
- ParadigmsAgile
- StorageGoogle Cloud, PostgreSQL
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering2004 - 2008University of Washington - Seattle, WA, USA
