Alexander Blair
Spokane,WA
Summary
Experienced system administrator looking to grow and expand skills, tackling new challenges in the rapidly developing world of system infrastructure design and security. Experienced with regulatory-heavy environments as well as working at startups in a mix of individual contributor as well as leadershop roles.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
CTO
Rhaegal Holdings LLC
09.2024 - Current
- Inherited a custom, legacy blockchain and developed migration plans to a modern Hyperledger based architecture
- Developed the high level architecture for an L2 based solution to work with regulatory agencies on centralized currencies.
MULTIPLE
MONERO CRYPTOCURRENCY
01.2015 - Current
- Developed one of the competing currency pool implementations for CryptoNote based coins (nodejs-pool), as well as joined forces with a pool operator to drive a pool to the #1 spot in terms of net hash multiple times. Served as the software maintainer and managed merge requests and conflicts.
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Merit
04.2023 - 09.2024
- Developed dedicated test/integration environments using replacements for cloud-provisioned tools for development teams to rapidly iterate with CI/CD support
- Handled training within software expertise as well as helping to drive development for junior engineer
CTO
PARLER LLC
08.2019 - 03.2021
- Grew the development team from 4 engineers to upwards of twenty while bringing on almost a full team of supporting staff.
- Grew the platform from 5/users a second to a peak of nearly 500k users/second with signups exceeding 1m users/day. Key to this was the implementation of solid CI/CD systems that allowed for test deployments and easy rollback.
- Handled the de-platforming of the system off AWS into private hosting, while at AWS, served as the primary contact for the company.
CTO
HOSHO LLC
12.2017 - 11.2018
- Came onboard as the initial contract auditor, grew the auditing team to 8+ people. Drove the development of an alternate EVM implementation in C#.NET with two fantastic C# developers.
Skills
- Linux system administration, primarily Debian
- In depth debugging skills for applications from the system level
- In depth knowledge of Golang, Python, Terraform, K8S
- Maintains the ability to rapidly pivot between tasks while priotirzing on the fly
Timeline
CTO
Rhaegal Holdings LLC
09.2024 - Current
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Merit
04.2023 - 09.2024
CTO
PARLER LLC
08.2019 - 03.2021
CTO
HOSHO LLC
12.2017 - 11.2018
MULTIPLE
MONERO CRYPTOCURRENCY
01.2015 - Current