# Alexander Pelavin

> Software Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexanderpelavin

Developing software is a passion of mine in both my personal and professional life. I am a full stack developer with experience in various server side applications and front-end frameworks. In addition, I also have interests and some experience in cloud computing and serverless applications. 

https://github.com/Lazzer64

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Owned web application side of the CI/CD as a service platform and contributed to backend codebase (C#) and designs; Lead UI development (React), gathered requirements, created SRDs, and worked closely with UX teams to rebuild user experience from the ground up; Kickstarted CI/CD integrations with the DCIM (NetBox) and created ingestion tool to bootstrap NVIDIA datacenters (Python); Managed relationships with other teams, bringing them up to speed with NVIDIA CI/CD and Kubernetes best practices, creating pipelines (Jenkins), introducing them to Kubernetes, and giving them tools to create their own automation; Designed, developed and owned several Kubernetes operators (Golang), automating the process of creating new Kubernetes clusters, deploying NVIDIA application stacks, and managing the lifecycle of each application.

### Intern @ NVIDIA
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, California
Worked in both Infrastructure and Machine Learning teams as part of the Performance Lab; Created microservice (Python) to collect, parse, sanitize, and validate large datasets for neural net training; Maintained and refactored legacy tools (Perl) in order to meet new requirements; Helped facilitate transition to gitlab from perforce and implement continuous integration pipelines

### Software Engineering Intern @ Directly
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Participated in several sprints on engineering scrum team; Contributed to legacy code (Java/Groovy) and new microservices (Node.js); developed and released customer facing feature directly improving satisfaction

### True Entrepreneur Corps Fellow @ True Ventures
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Participated in True Ventures fellowship learned about startups and early stage investment firsthand; worked a weekend of presentations about startups and scaling a company

### Reactor8 intern @ Reactor8
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto
Worked on project that automated deployment of distributed applications; integrated cloud instances, containers, AWS lambda and slack; Contributed to software framework that automates deployment of big data stacks; automated deployment of Apache Spark clusters and builds of Scala apps (Ruby/Bash)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of the Pacific


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexander-pelavin
- Website: https://github.com/Lazzer64

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Last updated: 2026-04-01