cloudNX is a principal-led practice. Alexander Liemen is a Triple-Certified AWS Solutions Architect who chose molecular biology over computer science — not as a fallback, but because he'd been programming since age 8 and was already running a 2-million-user web hosting platform by university.
This was pre-cloud. Clustering meant hand-built servers, each hosting 50,000 users — only possible by patching MySQL's connection/authentication handling, hardening PHP's filesystem isolation, and writing custom Apache modules for injection-safe analytics.
The kind of work that doesn't exist anymore because AWS abstracted it away.
Molecular Biology was simply what he was curious about — how genetics and complex systems actually work. The field was decades from practical application then. With AI, that's finally changing.
"You can teach a physicist finance, but you can't teach a finance person physics."
— Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies
With 20+ years of experience, Alexander approaches infrastructure the same way:
- > HYPOTHESIZE
- > TEST
- > FIX
- > SCALE
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