Alex Palcuie

I keep Claude reliable at Anthropic, which means the unenviable job of fixing Claude without Claude when it goes down. Previously Staff SRE at Google. L...

I keep Claude reliable on the AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE) team, which means the unenviable job of fixing Claude without Claude when it goes down. I’m based in London, originally from Romania. I write a blog at blog.palcu.net and occasionally angel invest . I spent 8 years as an SRE on Google Compute Engine (GCE). I was also on Tech IRT, the incident response team for Google-wide outages, and a founding engineer of Cloud IRT for GCP outages. Before that, I was a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir and a software engineer for both the Government of Romania and uberVU, a startup later acq

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