Platform engineering, infra costs, and AI. Blogging at https://akomljen.com.

• HP Helion MVP

  HP Helion

  Sep 2014

  The Helion MVP is an exclusive program for top community influencers, leaders and contributors. The Helion MVP award acknowledges technical expertise, community contributions and the dedication to being a thought leader in the Cloud space. The program will recognize the contributions of individuals who have invested a significant amount of time and resources to become experts on OpenStack® and Cloud Foundry solutions and have shared their expertise and passion about cloud technology with the…

  The Helion MVP is an exclusive program for top community influencers, leaders and contributors. The Helion MVP award acknowledges technical expertise, community contributions and the dedication to being a thought leader in the Cloud space. The program will recognize the contributions of individuals who have invested a significant amount of time and resources to become experts on OpenStack® and Cloud Foundry solutions and have shared their expertise and passion about cloud technology with the community.

• DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger)

  DZone

  Jan 2013

  Most valuable blogger from DZone network. The program streamlines and simplifies the process of reprinting selected articles by MVB members onto DZone Network websites.

• Khris Richardson

  “Alen is an increasingly rare breed of engineer, the sort which can think independently and contribute interdependently. He possesses a keen appreciation for the criticality of taking risks and a shrewdness to assess the benefits and drawbacks of risky ventures through self-motivated research or lean development of minimal viable products. When presented with the idea of using SaltStack versus heavyweights like Puppet or Chef, Juju versus service orchestration alternatives, and coupling OpenStack Nova with Ceph rather than Swift, while at first he questioned my sanity, Alen far exceeded my expectations and rapidly presented to me concrete demonstrations of benefits that I hadn't even considered. All that was required to get Alen contributing on a cloud re-architecture project I led was a mission statement, a set of core values, and an account on our internal Git server. From there, Alen hit the ground running by testing, providing valuable feedback, and soon thereafter contributing code to make enhancements and fill gaps with the esoteric new tools.”