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Alex Hovel
Infrastructure & DevOps
Engineer

I design, build, and operate production systems — from custom hardware to cloud infrastructure. Turning complex problems into reliable, automated solutions.

40+
Containers
15+
Services
99.9%
Uptime
4
Hosts

Featured Projects

Case studies in infrastructure, automation, and full-stack engineering. Each project represents a real problem solved with production-quality solutions.

Live web app

ClipCrunch

Full-lifecycle SaaS video compressor — AWS infrastructure (12 Terraform modules), Discord & Telegram bots, Cognito auth, Stripe billing, 159 unit tests.

Python FastAPI Terraform AWS Docker +5
Live infrastructure

Homelab Infrastructure

Production-grade infrastructure managing 40+ containers across 4 hosts — full observability, SSO, automated security scanning, and self-healing services.

Docker Traefik Prometheus Grafana Loki +5
In Progress security

Expunge

Privacy automation platform — plugin-based data broker opt-out system with anti-bot bypass chain, browser extension, Celery workers, and real-time WebSocket logging.

Python FastAPI Celery Redis PostgreSQL +4
Live ai ml

AI Guardian

Autonomous infrastructure monitoring with statistical anomaly detection, LLM-driven root cause analysis, and intelligent alerting with deduplication and escalation.

Python FastAPI APScheduler Prometheus Loki +4
Live open source

Traefik Route53 Companion

Open-source tool that automatically creates and removes Route53 DNS records from Traefik container labels — zero-config DNS management for Docker environments.

Python Docker AWS Route53 Traefik GitHub Actions
Live web app

Budget Buddy

Personal finance tracker with Plaid bank integration, bill recurrence engine, balance projection graphs, and automated email reports.

Python Flask Plaid API JavaScript Canvas +2

What I Do

Full-stack infrastructure engineering — from custom hardware and firmware to cloud architecture and AI-driven automation.

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, Terraform, Docker, multi-host orchestration, network design

DevOps & CI/CD

GitHub Actions, SonarQube, automated deployments, container registries

AI & Automation

LLM integration, autonomous agents, anomaly detection, intelligent monitoring

Security

WAF/IPS, CVE scanning, SSO, pen testing, secrets management

Let's Build Something Together

Looking for a DevOps engineer who thinks in systems? I'm available for full-time roles, contract work, and consulting.