Alex Williams

THE FUTURE

I dream of riding my motorcycle all year long, in a nice climate (California, Australia, Spain…), spending a few hours each day thinking about new and better ways of doing the things we do (ideas), perhaps improving millions of peoples lives.

THE PRESENT

I'm currently working on completing volumes 2 and 3 of my Web Scaling eBook series. I'm interested in all things involving cloud computing, high-availability, virtualization, scalability, and automation. I’m constantly installing, coding, patching, configuring and testing various Open Source Software.

THE PAST

The last 11.5 years (since Jan 2000) have been spent working in the IT industry as an R&D systems architecture specialist, system/network administrator, freelance web developer, technical and customer support guru.

I’ve been employed, consulted and freelanced for small startups with less than 10 employees (Nerd Studio, Dynamo, Intellabase and Openface), and larger companies with hundreds of employees (Tommy Hilfiger, Lasik MD, iWeb Technologies).

LIFE

I consider myself an athlete and I’m rather versatile in a number of sports. My favorite ones are: football (american), rollerblading, slow cycling, snowboarding, basketball, running, hockey, soccer (futbol), and rock climbing.

I love traveling and was lucky to have spent considerable amount of time all over the USA and Canada (east and west coasts), Jamaica, Spain, London UK and Japan.

I'm currently living in Tokyo Japan, working with GitHub, enjoying LIFE and spending most of my days coding/writing/designing apps and architectures in coffee shops, roomba'ing™ around the city, and talking to random people to improve my grasp of the local language.