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💼 Past Experience

Alex Kesler has experience in the software development industry, including 2 years of experience as a software engineer and 1 year as a software development and network systems engineer. He is currently a Sr. Software Engineer, Network Systems Eng, Cloud DVR at Comcast from April 2018 to September 2018 (6 months). Alex's successes include conversion of three dozen Jenkins jobs to a unified framework of Concourse CI pipelines, building, integration testing, and publishing Docker images of Golang microservices from Git. He also successfully developed a tool in Golang to execute Concourse pipeline build tasks on developers’ machines, as part of code change validation. Alex lead a small team in the end-to-end integration and roll-out of this conversion. The switch to Concourse halved the total system build time and doubled the build resource availability over Jenkins as well as allowed for minimal effort for integration of new Git repos.Sr. Engineer, Software Dev and Eng at Comcast from June 2016 to April 2018 (1 year 11 months). Alex’s accomplishments included the development of a complete telemetry solution for gathering broadcast statistics for the national Emergency Alert System. Alex built this analytics processor with the help of Kafka Streaming API and MirrorMaker, running in Kubernetes on Linux Docker containers. He developed message processing logic for Avro-encoded data in Java/Groovy. He prototyped the end-to-end testing of this system for QA staff via Python. Alex was also instrumental in the investigation and prototyping of software-based routing and media delivery solutions, using Java, C, and Golang network libraries. Software Engineering Tech Lead at Trimble from September 2012 to October 2015 (3 years 2 months). Alex had set technical direction for a backend API's team of 5 ASP.NET WebAPI software engineers, 3 testing engineers, a SQL Server database administrator, and a site-reliability engineer. He fulfilled daily responsibilities of investigating technologies, prototyping solutions, ensuring technical standards, and developing staff. Alex’s accomplishments included delivery of multiple new system features and conversion of inter-process communication onto RabbitMQ service bus to eliminate periodic peak-load system-wide delays. Alex aggressively eliminated MongoDB query performance issues and facilitated development of transaction visualization tools to significantly reduce DevOps MTTR. Alex successfully completed multiple trips to Chennai, India to kick-start and lead additional teams there on several large development projects. Sr. Software Engineer in Performance at Trimble from April 2012 to September 2012 (6 months). Alex developed sophisticated Microsoft SQL Server queries to provide operational insight into system throughput, performance, and user load. He implemented a function-level tracing framework with output to Windows performance counters, to provide key statistics of service-level performance. Alex built a scalable load generator in C# to allow QA engineers to define load profiles in XML and exercise the system for capacity planning. Solutions Consultant (Software Engineer) at Adventos, LLC from December 2006 to July 2008 (1 year 8 months). Alex mentored software engineering staff of multiple clients on Microsoft SQL Server, C# on .NET Framework, Team Foundation Server version control, and general approaches to leveraging design patterns for agile software development.

🎓 Education

Alex Kesler has a Master's degree in computer science from Colorado State University and a Master's degree in information technology from University of Denver. Kesler has also completed Daniels College of Business'

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Overall, Alex Kesler has experience in both software engineering and technical support. Alex's skills include; ability to build and convert Jenkinsjobs, to develop code change validation tools, and to outstanding job performance with increased success rate. In his previous roles, Alex successfully converted three dozen Jenkins jobs to a unified framework of Concourse CI pipelines, building, integration testing, and publishing Docker images of Golang microservices from Git. Alex also successfully developed a tool in Golang to execute Concourse pipeline build tasks on developers’ machines, as part of code change validation. Alex led a small team in the end-to-end integration and roll-out of this conversion. The switch to Concourse halved the total system build time and doubled the build resource availability over Jenkins as well as allowed for minimal effort for integration of new Git repos.