About

Alex Merenda is an experienced DevOps Lead with over 11 years of relevant experience in the field. Currently working at mooveai, Alex is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of DevOps strategies to improve the company's IT infrastructure and operations. Alex's past experience includes working as a Site Reliability Engineer at impact, where he was responsible for ensuring the reliability and availability of the company's systems. At placeiq, Alex worked as a DevOps Engineer, where he managed and maintained the Java application environment. He also wrote and maintained Ansible roles and playbooks for automating and managing server infrastructure, set up high-resolution metrics databases for monitoring application-level metrics, wrote Python scripts to test and automate processes, and set up centralized logging and alerting with Elasticsearch. Additionally, he set up CI/CD flows with Jenkins and maintained and optimized nginx servers. Alex has a degree in Computer Technology from Manchester Community College, where he studied from 2009 to 2011. He also attended Conard High School. His tech stack includes DevOps, SRE, Ansible, CI/CD, test, Elastic Search, Jenkins, infra, Python, and Java. Overall, Alex is a highly skilled DevOps Lead with a strong track record of success in managing IT infrastructure and operations. He is a proactive problem solver, an effective communicator, and a team player, making him an asset to any organization.