Solutions Architect
2015 - 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: Apache KafkaFounder and CEO
2013 - 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.
Founder and CEO
2012 - 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: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS, Couchbase, Ruby on Rails (RoR), RubySolutions Architect
2008 - 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
Software Developer in 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
- ConfluentApache Kafka
- MemCachierAmazon Web Services (AWS), AWS, Couchbase, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
- ClouderaHadoop
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) 8 years
- Apache Kafka 3 years
- Kafka Streams 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Git, MacOS, Linux
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
Languages
Java, Python, RubyFrameworks
Spring, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Bootstrap, HadoopTools
Kafka Streams, Git, GitHubPlatforms
Apache Kafka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, Linux, MacOSOther
Software Development, Mega, Kafka, AWSLibraries/APIs
jQueryParadigms
AgileStorage
PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Couchbase
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering2004 - 2008University of Washington - Seattle, WA, USA
