About

Aleš Plšek is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 14 years of experience in building highly scalable distributed systems and cloud infrastructures. He is currently working at Netflix, where he specializes in Resilience Engineering and Chaos Engineering. Aleš has extensive programming expertise in Golang, Java, Real-time Java, and C. He is highly skilled in performance analysis and concurrent programming. Aleš is passionate about building robust and efficient systems that can handle high traffic and complex workloads. Prior to joining Netflix, Aleš worked at Apple, where he was a Senior Software Engineer responsible for cloud infrastructure. He also worked at Upthere, where he was part of the backend team responsible for building the cloud infrastructure. Upthere was later acquired by Western Digital. Aleš holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I) and an M.S. in Computer Science from Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Aleš's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Java, infra, Golang, and Backend. He is a skilled problem solver who can handle complex technical challenges with ease. Aleš is a valuable asset to any team looking to build scalable and efficient systems.