Carl Alexander
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorCarl Alexander is a founder and seasoned technology consultant with 14 years of experience building web platforms, leading engineering teams, and guiding enterprises as a fractional CTO or Director of Engineering. He bootstrapped Ymir, a niche serverless DevOps platform that pushes PHP and WordPress into serverless architectures, and remains one of the few global experts in that space. Carl combines hands-on product development, DevOps, and systems administration with strategic leadership—helping companies modernize legacy systems, implement continuous delivery, and recover from production incidents. He’s an experienced public speaker and author, sharing practical engineering patterns for WordPress and object-oriented PHP, and has monetized that expertise through a successful book. Based in Montreal, he balances consulting engagements with active product work and community-facing transparency, having built Ymir in public while running client-facing advisory work. His background in computer engineering and finance gives him both technical rigor and a pragmatic business perspective when designing scalable, cost-effective solutions.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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664reached
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Github Skills (149)
turbolinks10
php-curl10
authentication10
ubuntu10
security10
phpredis10
code-analysis10
command-line-tool10
backend10
object-cache10
clustering10
relay10
debian10
data-center10
wordpress10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
carlalexander/carlalexander.ca
Apr 2012 - Aug 2022
Repository for carlalexander.ca
Contributions:241 commits, 12 PRs, 142 pushes in 10 years 5 months
ymirapp/cli
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Ymir command-line tool
Contributions:3 reviews, 556 commits, 41 PRs in 3 years 2 months
command-line-tool
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