Hi, my name is Alexander Cranga!

I started my career by automating software testing workflows in a small team. Now, I play a significant role in managing complex development environments, deployment systems, and production monitoring/alerting tools for the entire organization and our clients. I have always been passionate about automation and the value it can bring to businesses.

My main goal is to develop and maintain the best cost effective engineering solutions, workflows, and tools that can help organizations continuously provide value to their customers.

I am a passionate DevOps engineer, and I absolutely love what I do!

DevOps Engineer | Extole

Nov 2019 - Current

• Completely refactored the automation testing approach and now responsible for owning QA automation workflows
• Successfully migrated our company's CI/CD infrastructure from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and implemented advanced custom GitHub actions and workflows
• Used Terraform to automate the creation of AWS EKS clusters, providing scalable self-hosted GitHub runners for our organization. I am responsible for owning CI/CD workflows for deployments, testing, and monitoring within the organization
• Worked with logging tools such as Grafana and Prometheus, creating multiple detailed KPI dashboards for the entire CI/CD system. These dashboards provide great insights into our production and development speed and costs
• Automated Let's Encrypt SSL certificates monitoring and maintenance workflows
• Have experience being on-call to handle issues in production and development environments

Full Stack Developer | Allied Testing (part time)

Jun 2018 - Nov 2019

• Developed a production ready UI web application using React, Redux, ES6, Webpack, ESlint, Babel. Worked with Atlassian Atlaskit react components. The application is now installed by 60+ Atlassian customers in production environments
• Took part in creating CI/CD pipelines for the whole project using Jenkins

Internship program co-owner and mentor | Allied Testing (part time)

Jan 2017 - Nov 2019

• Developed a UI application for the internship program using TypeScript and Angular 2
• Helped with developing a REST service using Java and Spring framework
• Interviewed 100+ people; 70+ people have been hired by the company afterwards
• Worked as a mentor teaching interns about QA Automation, REST APIs, frameworks and Java language

QA Framework and Automation engineer | Allied Testing

Dec 2015 - Nov 2019

• Developed automation tools and automated test cases using Java and related test frameworks such as TestNG, JUnit, JBehave, Serenity, Selenium, Cucumber while following TDD/BDD approaches