Alexander Johannes Murmann
- Role
- Senior Manager, Vmware Gemfire at Vmware
- Location
- Beaverton, OR, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Alexander Johannes Murmann
Engineering leader with experience from startups to large enterprises. Building anything…
Experience
Senior Manager, Vmware Gemfire
Jan 2020 — Present
Team leader for globally-distributed engineering team of 45 in developing VMware GemFire (previously Pivotal). GemFire is a distributed, highly-scalable, in-memory, high-performance, consistent, data store. Our international customer base in finance, travel, government and many other industries use GemFire for mission-critical applications. Supervised development efforts such as * Platform offerings on Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes * Redis-compatible APIs * NodeJS client * REST management API Leadership:* Worked closely with product team on creating and aligning team around a shared vision.* Responsible for team topologies and staffing.* Coordinated response of the engineering team to critical customer incidents and represented team to customers during such calls.* Directed interview practices and processes to maintain a strong and diverse hiring pipeline. Consistently received excellent feedback on the candidate experience.* Mentored ICs and managers ranging from new grads to industry veterans with 30+ years of experience. Led reviews for performance, compensation, and promotions.* Drove effort to establish a culture of psychological safety.* Managed team through several re-orgs and acquisitions while maintaining <10% attrition. Accelerated feedback loops which increased quality and speed of delivery:* Implemented test-driven development, continuous integration, pair programming and iterative planning and development.* Reduced number of escaped bugs by ~70% and total support issues by 1/3 while accelerating test run time from 3 days to 3 hours and improving coverage. Open-Source:* Functioned as Apache Committer and PMC member. Managed team’s engagement with Apache Geode open-source community.* Drove regular community meetings and established a more formalized proposal process which accelerated consensus finding.
Skills
- Web Development
- Python
- Php
- Postgresql
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Ruby
- Javascript
- Java
- C++
- Rest
- Git
- Software Development
- Jquery
- Software Engineering
- Agile Methodologies
- Web Applications
- Ruby on Rails
- Machine Learning
- Xml
- Test Driven Development
- Mysql
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