Alex Dietrich is Director of IP & Transport Engineering at US Signal, where he’s spent five years leading work across cloud and network infrastructure. Alex was one of the lead builders of US Signal’s CloudStack deployment and its OpenCloud product, taking the project from evaluating VMware alternatives through architecture, build, and deployment automation of CloudStack. In production since late 2024 across five data centers, with more on the way, the platform is designed to scale effectively at the network layer and to make the on-ramp easier for engineers new to CloudStack.