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Alex Oladele
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Howdy, My name is Alex and I am a Site Reliability Engineer at IBM!
Easy fun facts about me:
- I'm bad at basic math
- I'm bad at geography
- I'm good at caring about people
- I love Frank Ocean
- I have a cat named Sokka
- I love Avatar: The Last Airbender
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2022
Apr 22, 2022
Apr 22, 2022
Shipped a side project
Working on a Discord bot
Wrote Python
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Started making a discord-bot that will keep threads alive by automatically un-archiving them as soon as they are archived


I call it..... Lazarus-bot!
https://github.com/dragid10/lazarus-bot/
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Apr 14, 2022
Apr 14, 2022
Attended a DevOpsDaysRDU
I was able to go to the second day of DevOpsDays RDU and got to hear some amazing talks! 

Some of my personal favorites were around implementing Chaos Engineering practices in your role, and Securing the software supply-chain 
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Feb 04, 2022
Feb 04, 2022
Wrote a talk
Led Developer Guild

How to make interviews just a bit better!

During my first internal Dev Guild meeting that I led, I gave a talk about how to make interviews better! There are a couple of quotes attributed to an old coworker named Jimmy Lee

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NTw2RZwxhAE6-KSkR3n8IrlZ1idUslGS/view?usp=sharing
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2021
Jun 13, 2021
Jun 13, 2021
Wrote a Blog Post
Wrote about Python

Stop using pip freeze to create your requirements file!

I wrote a blog post on my website about why you should consider not using `pip freeze > requirements.txt`
Its definitely bitten me before 

https://alexo.dev/blog/avoiding-pip-freeze-2/
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May 09, 2021
May 09, 2021
Shipped a side project
Created a Twitter Bot

Frank Ocean Twitter Bot

I recreated my stale Frank Ocean Twitter bot using Python
Github
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May 01, 2021
May 01, 2021
Started a new role at IBM
Excited to join IBM as Site Reliability Engineer - Toolbox@IBM! 🎉
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Site Reliability Engineer - Toolbox@IBM, IBM