Alex Krentsel
Senior Systems Research Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Krentsel is a Senior Systems Research Engineer and PhD candidate at UC Berkeley with 11 years of experience building and researching large-scale networking and systems. Based in San Francisco, he currently explores next-generation wide area networks in Google's Systems Research Group while pursuing systems and networking research under advisors from the NetSys lab. He brings practical product experience from YouTube and Google across backend infrastructure, personalized analytics, and growth-related systems, and has a track record of shipping full-featured flows and services on mobile and web platforms. An experienced educator and curriculum builder, he has taught large introductory CS courses and led graduate instruction at Berkeley and Howard University. He combines rigorous academic research with hands-on engineering, and—less obvious—maintains a deep creative side as a trained violinist, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMath, Science, and Technology | Youth Performing Arts, Math, Science, and Technology | Youth Performing Arts at duPont Manual High School
English, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish
Github Skills (142)
ruby10
rospy10
docker-container10
ublock-origin10
ros10
ros-node10
robotics10
dbase10
firefox10
pgloader10
browser-extension10
graph10
openzfs10
blocker10
freebsd10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
spaghetti-/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 3 years 8 months
spaghetti-/blog
Jan 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 90 pushes, 13 branches in 7 years 7 months
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