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Alek Dembowski

Staff SWE TL on Monarch

Wallkill, New York

Overview 

Alek Dembowski is a Staff Software Engineering Team Lead on the Monarch project at Google, with prior roles at Dropbox, Merrill Lynch, and extensive experience in C++, Java, and project management. With a Master's and Bachelor's degree from New York University, Alek has excelled in roles such as Senior Software Engineer at Google and Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch.

Work Experience 

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Google

  • SWE TL/M on Monarch

    2021 - Current

    Monarch is Google's monitoring system. I lead the team responsible for evaluating Monarch's Standing Queries (effectively materialized views of monitoring data & alerts). See https://research.google/pubs/pub50652/ for context.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2020

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com
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Dropbox

  • SRE

    2019 - 2020

    I worked on Vortex2, Dropbox's internal monitoring system. Work focused on improving uptime, latency, and making releases safer.

Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.

Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.

dropbox.com
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Google

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2008 - 2019

    Worked on Checkout>Wallet and AdX>DRX>AdManager, mostly building serverside infrastructure making apis easier to write, or monitoring more automatic, or triaging production issues and making longer term fixes, or trying to scale the current system. Mostly wrote in Java with a smattering of python and smaller languages.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com
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Merrill Lynch

  • Assistant Vice President

    2004 - 2008

    Main developer and project manager for a Repo trading system. Responsible for most development, escalated support issues, requirements gathering and UAT. The system runs on a J2EE server with a rich Swing client launched via webstart.

The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.

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