Alek Dembowski
Staff SWE TL on Monarch
Wallkill, New York
Skills
Education
Work Experience
2020
SWE TL/M on Monarch
2021
Monarch is Google's monitoring system. I lead the team responsible for evaluating Monarch's Standing Queries (effectively materialized views of monitoring data & alerts). See https://research.google/pubs/pub50652/ for context.
Senior Software Engineer
2020
2019 - 2020
SRE
2019 - 2020
I worked on Vortex2, Dropbox's internal monitoring system. Work focused on improving uptime, latency, and making releases safer.
2008 - 2019
Senior Software Engineer
2008 - 2019
Worked on Checkout>Wallet and AdX>DRX>AdManager, mostly building serverside infrastructure making apis easier to write, or monitoring more automatic, or triaging production issues and making longer term fixes, or trying to scale the current system. Mostly wrote in Java with a smattering of python and smaller languages.
2004 - 2008
Assistant Vice President
2004 - 2008
Main developer and project manager for a Repo trading system. Responsible for most development, escalated support issues, requirements gathering and UAT. The system runs on a J2EE server with a rich Swing client launched via webstart.