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Alexander Gallego

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Founder at Redpanda

San Francisco, California, United States

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Alexander Gallego is the founder and CEO of Redpanda Data, where he is building Redpanda, described as an agentic data plane. A systems engineer with a focus on low-latency storage, distributed stream processing, databases, and networking, he previously worked on vectorized.io and concord.io (now part of Akamai IoT). He maintains an open-source RPC protocol, smf, which uses TCP kernel bypass and zero-cost serialization, and has developed an out-of-band pairing protocol.

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Experience

  1. Redpanda DataFounder & CEOcurrent2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Akamai TechnologiesPrincipal Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure Engineering2016 — 2019New York
  3. Concord Systems, Inc.Founder & CTO2014 — 2019Brooklyn, NY
  4. YieldMoSoftware Engineer2012 — 2014Greater New York City Area
  5. FactSet Research SystemsSoftware Engineer2011 — 2012New York, New York
  6. Polytechnic Institute of New York UniversityNSF REU - Student Researcher2009 — 2011new york, new york
  7. FactSet Research SystemsSoftware Engineer Intern2010
  8. Forex Capital MarketsProgramming Services Specialist Intern2009

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iPhone developmentGo1FreeBSD1iOS development4Algorithms6Mobile Applications2Distributed Systems3Programming2Objective-C9C++19Linux10Java20
+12 moreMySQLJavaScriptCSQLPythonPHPPerlMongoDBAndroidDatabasesOperating SystemsHTML

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Who is Alexander Gallego?
Alexander Gallego is the founder and CEO of Redpanda Data, where he is building Redpanda, described as an agentic data plane. A systems engineer with a focus on low-latency storage, distributed stream processing, databases, and networking, he previously worked on vectorized.io and concord.io (now part of Akamai IoT). He maintains an open-source RPC protocol, smf, which uses TCP kernel bypass and zero-cost serialization, and has developed an out-of-band pairing protocol.
Where does Alexander Gallego work?
Alexander Gallego is Founder of Redpanda.
What companies did Alexander Gallego found?
Alexander Gallego founded Redpanda.
Where did Alexander Gallego go to school?
Alexander Gallego studied at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science).

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