Alex Zarifoglu
🇨🇦 Toronto, ON | LinkedIn: alexzarifoglu
Education
B.Sc Computer Science '17
London, ON, Canada
Experience
Advisory Software Architect | Mar 2022 - Current
Toronto, ON, Canada
Staff Software Developer | Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Toronto, ON, Canada
- Technical lead for various Db2 HA projects.
- Integrated high availability solutions to multiple cloud vendors.
Awards:
- IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Db2 HADR Integrated Solution with Pacemaker.
Software Developer | May 2017 - Nov 2020
Toronto, ON, Canada
- Designed, documented and developed new product features for Db2 pureScale and High Availability
- Investigated problems reported by QA and delivered fixes to enhance product quality.
- Participated in code reviews to ensure the work delivered by the team is of high quality.
- Implemented unit, functional and regression tests.
- Provided customer support for Db2 pureScale and High Availability features.
Awards:
- CrushIT Team Excellence Award
- CrushIT Rising Star Award
Software Developer Intern | Summer 2015
Istanbul, Turkey
Technical Consultant | 2014 - 2015
London, ON, Canada
Skills
- C/C++
- Java
- Linux/Unix
- Perl
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Pacemaker/Corosync
- PHP
- SQL/NoSQL
Volunteer Work
Co-founder, VP Technology | 2014 - 2016
London, ON, Canada
- Student-run startup incubator at Western University that focuses on improving programming literacy and promoting computer science as an interdisciplinary still set
- Responsible for the curriculum for multiple educational programs
- Student Instructor for Swift and Web Development courses
- Responsible for the online presence of the organization; managed the email system, registration system, database etc.
- Featured on Western News
Languages
- English
|
fluent |
- Turkish
|
native |
- German
|
beginner |
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