Alex Meddin

Tanium

Tanium is an IT operations platform used by the world's largest organizations. At Tanium Cloud, I build and maintain planet-scale services and infrastructure connecting hundreds of millions of endpoints globally.

• Customers can patch their fleet of millions of endpoints in hours now instead of days thanks to a petabyte-scale global CDN I created to deliver data faster and cheaper.
• Eliminated more than 100 petabits/month of costly egress by writing an high performance gRPC streaming service in Golang that caches and deduplicates terabytes of shared customer data.
• Proactively identified and saved over $1 million in annual cloud costs without compromising stability by right-sizing RDS databases and replacing expensive VPC endpoints with secure proxies.
• Unlocked a new market of newly-viable small business customers worth millions in ARR by converting thousands of costly EC2 VMs and private networks to horizontally-scalable Kubernetes workloads and shared service meshes.
• Empowered dozens of engineering teams to deploy new infrastructure rapidly by building Kubernetes operators equipped with Pulumi that provision cloud resources from simple native Kubernetes API specs (CRDs).
• Saved hundreds of developer hours and frequent outages by decoupling previously monolithic infrastructure as code projects so multiple teams could release on their own schedules.