I’m Alex Palcuie, a member of technical staff working in the AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE) team at Anthropic. I keep Claude reliable, and when it goes down, my pager lets me know.

I’m based in London, originally from Romania. I write a blog at blog.palcu.net.

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

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 Twitter. I accept emails from both humans and AI models, but I can’t promise to reply to everything. I also angel invest.

In 2025 Anno Domini, my employer and previous employers require me to state that all the expressed views and opinions on this website 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 cheque every month, I assume the tradeoffs are worth it.

My nickname is Palcu, pronounced as PAL-koo. My family name is pronounced PAL-koo-yeh.