Alexander West
Viasat Software Engineer Intern, Data Platform
- Role
- Incoming Software Engineer Intern, Data Platform at Viasat
- Location
- San Diego, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Alexander West
Undergraduate student passionate about computer science, full-stack development…
Experience
Incoming Software Engineer Intern, Data Platform
May 2025 — Present · Boston, MA, US
Architected a cloud-agnostic Kubernetes operator in Python, providing a declarative API (CRD) that automated Kafka stream lifecycle management and unified deployment across both AWS EKS and GCP• Engineered a complete observability stack with 15+ custom Prometheus metrics and a 16-panel Grafana dashboard, featuring automated alerting for critical events like configuration drift and API failures• Implemented enterprise-grade safety features, including immutable field protection and drift detection to reconcile state with a backend API, plus annotation-driven deletion policies to prevent accidental data loss• Automated platform deployment using a single Helm chart to manage the operator, RBAC, and ServiceMonitors across all environments, designed to run on clusters provisioned by Terraform
Education
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Semester Abroad
UCLA
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
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