Hello, World.

Every site needs a first post, so here's mine.

This is alexanderwking.com — my corner of the internet. Part portfolio, part journal, part excuse to write things down properly instead of just muttering them at a terminal.

What to expect

I've been in tech long enough to have opinions worth committing to a page. Some of this will be technical: reliability engineering, GenAI infrastructure, observability, what it actually looks like to run SLOs-as-code at an enterprise scale. I spend my days at Merck keeping AI platforms alive across three cloud providers — there's a lot to say about that.

Some will be less technical: life in Austin, what I'm growing in the garden right now, things I've built or broken, basketball, music. The stuff that makes a person more than a job title.

Here's the kind of thing I deal with at work — a dead-simple SLO definition in YAML:

apiVersion: nobl9.com/v1alpha
kind: SLO
metadata:
  name: chatbot-availability
spec:
  budgetingMethod: Occurrences
  objectives:
    - target: 0.999
      op: lte
      value: 1

Clean on paper. Keeping it green across three clouds is the interesting part.

Why now

I've had this domain in my head for a while. Finally built something worth pointing people at.

More soon.

— AWK