Alex Balk Email & Phone Number

Israel

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As Director of Infrastructure at Viz.ai, I am responsible for leading and scaling the company's cloud infrastructure through managing the Platform, DevOps and Prod Eng. teams. We own cloud environments, build and deployment pipelines, observability systems, common clients/libs and infrastructure services as well as the developer portal and overall cloud spend.

Cloud / on-prem Infrastructure, DevOps and Developer Experience consultant. I help companies scale and improve operational efficiency while simplifying and accelerating development.

As CEO and co-founder of a bootstrapped startup in the field of private cloud management, I was responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of the company. I managed business development, product development, financial management, and fundraising efforts, with a focus on finding product-market fit.

New York, Us

Founded and led the Core Services group, taking ownership of the infrastructure spectrum from physical / cloud datacenters and up to the microservices deployment pipelines. My main focus was on “leading the leaders” of the group, establishing work and tech standards, introducing product-lead development, forging the company's PaaS vision and creating strategy to bring it to life. Among the group’s projects were adopting Kubernetes, introducing a Developer Portal, scaling the network through NetDevOps, whitebox hardware and an IP Fabric implementation, supporting hybrid cloud compute, Remote Hands automation and programmatic global traffic control.

New York, Us

Over the course of 2.5 years I'd assembled and led two teams comprised of Backend Developers and DevOps Engineers, who cover all aspects of Compute, Build & Deployment and Networking. As team lead, my duties included recruitment & career development, tech leadership, project management and reliable delivery. In between, I squeezed in Architecture Forum duties and hands on work.

New York, Us

Member of a global DevOps team, implementing Infrastructure as Code, bleeding edge Open Source projects and working with a rare mix of brilliant, cool people.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Tech Sales Lead for Cloud, HPC and All Things Linux under IBM's Systems and Technologies brand.In my role I worked with banks, Aerospace & Defense and universities - all running unique, complex workloads on Distributed Systems, from HPC clusters to SAP HANA. I had the fortune to work with some of the best in the Enterprise world.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Tech Sales Lead for the Lotus brand under IBM's Software Group. Plunging headlong into what I discovered to be a colossal challenge, I learnt what it means to run a brand, compete against the best, and win (and lose) against all odds. I learnt how to do enterprise sales, marketing, deliver killer presentations, and enjoy the rush of uncertainty. Business School, the field version.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Continuing my work with Intel's engineering team, now as an IBM employee, I was able to see more projects through in Intel’s massive compute datacenters. I was also exposed to more of IBM's customers, namely in the Aerospace & Defense sector, working on Linux, Open Source and Grid Computing technologies.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Working on Linux, Open Source technologies and Grid Computing. I introduced a performance monitoring system for the whole Intel grid, automated firmware management for servers, and integrating new server technologies fresh from IBM.

Us

Setting up and managing Cisco networking equipment, Windows and Linux servers, for internal and customer use.

Us

Managing the technical support department for ACTCOM - the first commercial ISP in Israel. Hiring, training, handling escalations and taking shifts, this is where my affair with the Internet matured into a profession.

Psychology

Ccna, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications