Portfolio

Advisory Solutions Architect, Hybrid Multicloud. Twenty-five years from the server room to hybrid multicloud; at Nutanix since 2019, on Cloud Clusters from an incubation team of fewer than twelve to an organization of more than 250. Duvall, Washington.

Five places to look, one page each. The work first; the paper after.

• 01WorkSelected projects, the career in order, recognition, community, writing, and the GitHub activity that backs it. The long page; start here.Open Work →
• 02RésuméThe one-page version: profile, selected work, why these companies, experience, education, skills, honors. Printable, and the vCard is on the card page.Open Résumé →
• 03CertificationsThirty-nine credentials grouped by what they are for: cloud architecture, the Nutanix multicloud set, networking, earlier platforms, presales method, executive education. Verification links where the issuer gives one.Open Certifications →
• 04RecommendationsWhat the people he has built with say, in their own words, with their current title and company. Thirteen on the page, sixteen public on LinkedIn, and six formal letters available on request (2026, from leaders, product, customers, and peers), plus one reference who will take a call.Open Recommendations →
• 05VolunteeringThirty-one organizations, from the Technology Access Foundation classroom to the Washington Technology Industry Association: teaching, mentoring, standards work, and the odd board.Open Volunteering →

Digital commits

Where the real build activity lives, not a claim of it: two live GitHub calendars, and the public repos behind them. Refreshed once a day, 12am PT.

• @issaquahd, Alex Alvord636 contributions in the last year · as of 2026-10-11
• @CloudLabWorks, Alex Alvord2,113 contributions in the last year · as of 2026-10-11

• ProjectsPublic repos with real commit history, not a portfolio mock-up: cloudlabworks/nc2-aws-as-code (NC2 on AWS, as Terraform), cloudlabworks/utility-vm-egress-validator (test a landing zone's egress from inside it, MIT) and cloudlabworks/nc2-iam-preflight (which NC2 permissions you're missing, before onboarding, MIT). The write-ups: Selected projects.

Also in this column: Nutanix, the field notes from the NC2 years; Mentoring; Organizations. Business inquiries go through Inquire; the vCard is on the card.