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 a ton of projects simultaneously. More specifically, things involving cloud computing, high-availability, virtualization, scaling databases, etc. I’m constantly installing, coding, patching, configuring and testing various Open Source Software.

I also work for a large web hosting company who actually owns and operates its datacenters. I'm in the R&D department keeping my brain active.

THE PAST

The last 10 years have been spent working in the IT industry.

I’ve been employed at small startups with less than 10 employees, and larger companies with over 500 employees.

LIFE

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

I’m also a huge fan of traveling to warm locations due to our harsh Montreal winters.