Alexander Bauer
Cloud Engineer at General Dynamics Information Technology
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Bauer is a Cloud Engineer with 14 years of experience building and hardening infrastructure and automation across government and commercial environments from Baltimore. He progressed from systems administration and data science into DevOps and cloud roles at BluVector, Johns Hopkins APL, and General Dynamics Information Technology, blending operational rigor with software engineering practices. Alexander contributes to open-source projects focused on networking and tooling—improving test automation for the Tectonic LaTeX engine and fixing core scripts in the cjdns encrypted IPv6 project—showing attention to reliability and reproducible builds. He pairs a dual background in computer science and mathematics with practical experience deploying secure, testable systems, and often surfaces small but impactful fixes that improve day-to-day developer and runtime behavior.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
10,843reputation
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Github Skills (26)
json10
url-routing10
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scripting10
testing10
c1110
networking10
c1710
script10
regression-testing10
go10
sh10
rust10
shell10
test-automation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cjdelisle/cjdns
Aug 2012 - Feb 2013
An encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the project by fixing minor code issues such as semicolons and spelling errors, and adjusted startup script configurations. They also addressed issues related to script functionality by removing a fork and improving user output. These changes demonstrate experience working with the project's core functionality and configuration scripts.
hashtableipv6public-key-cryptographycjdnsmesh
tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
May 2017 - Jun 2017
A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 27 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure of the project. They wrote an executable and regression testing suite, enabling the running of the built executable in a temporary directory. This work included adding tools for copying resources and adding regression tests to prevent future issues, as well as fixing and adding test cases for existing bugs. The user also updated the tests to work with the project's build setup.
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