Alex Petrov is an Infrastructure Engineer and an Apache Cassandra committer, working on building data infrastructure and processing pipelines. His work sits at the foundation of data platforms: the storage engines, distributed systems, and pipelines that everything else depends on when applications need to handle data at scale.

Alex has a deep interest in computer science theory, algorithms, and distributed systems, and in understanding how things actually work under the hood. He believes that understanding belongs in the open, and he shares what he learns through blog posts, articles, and conference talks, making complex distributed systems topics accessible to other engineers.

As a committer on Apache Cassandra, one of the most widely used distributed databases, Alex contributes to a project that powers high-volume, fault-tolerant data storage for organizations around the world.