Alex Palcuie

Hi there! I'm Alex Palcuie, a member of technical staff working in the AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE) team at Anthropic. My new job is to keep Claude running smoothly.

I currently live in London and I was born in Romania. 

Previously I worked as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for 8 years in the Google Compute Engine (GCE) SRE team. I was also a member of Tech IRT (Incident Response Team), which dealt with Google-wide outages, and I was a founding engineer of the Cloud IRT, that was oncall for big Google Cloud Platform (GCP) outages.

I also held the position of Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir and worked as a software engineer for both the Government of Romania and uberVU, a startup which was later acquired by Hootsuite.

This website currently has a guide for recruiters on how to interact with myself and a page about my angel investing.

I have a blog at blog.palcu.net which is mostly dead. I follow the writings of Scott Alexander, Matt Levine, Patrick McKenzie and Tyler Cowen.

You can contact me at my email address alex.palcuie@gmail.com or on X, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon.

In 2025 anno Domini, my employer and previous employers require me to state that all the expressed views and opinions on this websites and my social network profiles are solely mine. My employer would also like that I stop writing post-meta-ironic takes, but given that it still sends me a pay check every month, I assume the tradeoffs are worth it.