Alexander Martin

About Alexander Martin

Highly skilled and dynamic software engineer with over 15 years in delivering cutting-edge solutions to the most demanding and complex projects in the automotive and eCommerce space. Demonstrated expertise and understanding of the latest technologies and trends, with a strong background in cloud migrations and modernization, adhering to the most stringent requirements, standardization, and regulatory guidelines to ensure seamless and successful global deployments.Possesses exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and mentor engineering teams, collaborate with product managers and stakeholders, and serve as a trusted technical liaison with suppliers, driving alignment and delivering results that contribute to the success of organizations.

Experience

1. Sr Staff Engineer

   Rivian

   Dec 2021 — Present

   Supported building and lead a charging engineering team to bring products from concept to reality. Managed all aspects of the projects including visibility, forecasting, risk management, cost planning, and capacity planning.Key achievements: • Defined high-level requirements for vehicle/charger integrations, charging cloud infrastructure, service mesh, and cross-functional dependencies applying and complying with industry and security standards such as OCPP, OCPI, ISO15118, Cloud Native, DR, AuthN/AuthZ, and CI/CD to scale and meet the demands of all customers.• Implemented hands-on processes for code maintenance, quality control, build and release pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring tools, and best practices while focusing on flexible, low-cost, highly available and resilient architectures in production.• Architected and released services to integrate with charging roaming partners for interoperability and navigation suppliers to support near-real-time charger availability and geospatial search, vehicle telemetry, trip planning, remote start/stop, plug and charge, payments, and inter-department integrations.• Directly impacted customer-facing products such as vehicle infotainment, battery management systems, charging stations, mobile apps, site host portals, fleet portals, data lake, and reporting tools/dashboards.Technologies and skills:System Design, AWS (API-Gateway, Lambda, EKS, IAM, MSK, S3), Azure, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spring Cloud, OpenSearch + Kibana, DataDog, Splunk, Graphana, SonarQube, Vehicle Telemetry, Terraform, gitlab

Education

• Media University Stuttgart

  B.Sc., Computer Science and Media

  2009 — 2012

• Gottlieb-Daimler-Schule II

  Vocational education, IT-specialist in Software Development

  2004 — 2007

• Stanford University

  Certification, Database class

  2011 — 2011

Skills

• Docker
• Jquery
• Git
• J2ee
• Node.js
• Subversion
• Mysql
• Jsp
• Data Analysis
• Google App Engine
• Microsoft Azure
• Websockets
• Couchbase
• Svn
• Android
• Windows
• Java Ee
• Db2
• Eclipse
• Php
• Design Patterns
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Javascript
• Uml
• Maven
• Spring Boot
• Websphere
• Mac Os X
• Html5
• Agile Methodologies
• Mongodb
• Elasticsearch
• C++
• Google Maps
• Lotus Notes
• Photoshop
• Ruby on Rails
• Css
• Software Development
• Npm