I am Alen Joseph Alex. (I like to be called as Alen).
You can find more about me on my home page at https://alenalex.com
I am a fun loving, talkative, friendly person. I love technology, and how it empowers everyone. Crazy about gadgets. I am into Music, Photography and Cars.
I am currently working as a Software Engineer at Google.
A brief look at my career.
I have worked at various companies since 2011, and been having a lot of fun ;).
Here is a look at my career.
- Infosys Technologies Limited : (August 1 2011 - July 1 2014)
I was part of Mobility Unit. Having worked on few interesting projects as a .Net developer, playing around with C#.
- Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. : (July 7 2014 - February 8 2018)
I was part of Identity Management (IDM) at Oracle. After having worked on their On-Prem solution for almost an year, I moved to Oracle Cloud, where I played around with all the fancy terms like Microservices, Active Directory, etc. developing using both Java and C# technologies.
- GlobalLogic [for client Ericsson] : (February 12 2018 - July 7 2018)
A short stint at GlobalLogic, having worked for Ericsson on their cloud based media platform namely Media First gave me my first exposure to Asp.Net Core. My major chunk of work was to migrate the existing Asp.Net application to Asp.Net Core.
- Microosft : (July 16 2018 - January 14 2022)
I am part of Supply Chain Engineering which is part of Core Service Engineering at Microsoft. I am working on .Net Core based applications, (obviously).
As part of this org, I have put my signature in the manufacturing process of Microsoft hardwares which includes Surface, XBox, Hololens and other Microsoft accessories.
Every Microsoft hardware you use or see around has gone through more than one process where I have contributed to it.
How cool is that!
- Google : (January 17 2022 - present) At Google, I am part of Google Cloud Platform or GCP in short. I am contributing to the infrastructure side of GCP. You probably won’t get to see the work that I do as a GCP feature, but you probably will not be able to enjoy using GCP without what we do here. ;)
Oh yes, I also switched the language. I use Golang and python for the work I do here. In particular Golang is growing on me.
Well, life is more than just career. More about me:
- Music
I’ve been into music since my childhood. Having born into a family where everyone has some bit of music in their life one way or another.
And, as for me, I’m into Musical Instruments.
I am majorly a keyboardist.
I started playing keyboard for the church choir in my 4th standard.
I have also put my hand into Guitar and Drums, but I’m no expert at either.
Rythums excite me. Be it drums, or any sort of percussion instruments. I enjoy beating rythm on the table, or on myself or anywhere that makes sound.
I am part of a Gospel Band named Deo Gratias.
- Photography
I’ve liked photography ever since I was at school, although I didn’t have a camera back then. I would get my friends’ camera and take pics anytime I got a chance. I was the man behind the camera for many of the short films that we did while at college.
I now have a Canon EOS 700 D to play around with.
I have uploaded a few of my pics here at 500px or instagram and my personal photography blog at https://alenspics.webflow.io/.
- Github
I have a few repos at Github, one of which is this blogpost. You could find them here
You can also follow me at facebook (I’m not an active facebook user, by the way), LinkedIn and Twitter. You could also get to me through my email