Alex Robinson is a member of the technical staff at Cockroach Labs, the startup leading the development of the open source CockroachDB project, where he works on CockroachDB's core transactional storage layer and manages all integrations with orchestration systems such as Kubernetes. This involves both running Kubernetes clusters directly and working with end users to ensure that CockroachDB works well within their varying orchestrated environments. Previously, he was a senior software engineer at Google, where he spent his last two years as a core developer of Kubernetes and GKE with a focus on logging, monitoring, cloud provider integrations, networking, and reliability.