Al Kemner
Production Engineering & Internal Tools at Figma
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAl Kemner is a seasoned production engineering and internal tools leader with 15+ years delivering resilient, compliant cloud infrastructure and building high-performing distributed teams. Currently leading Production Engineering & Internal Tools at Figma, he embeds across product and platform teams to drive reliability, service health, and discoverability—helping ship a FedRAMP Moderate environment to paying customers within six months. His background spans senior architecture and executive engineering roles at Mux, New Relic, and Gannett, where he standardized architecture practices, automated compliance, and reduced cross-team dependencies to accelerate engineering velocity. Known for tackling the projects others avoid, he combines entrepreneurial energy with strong vendor management and consensus-driven communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders. A longtime advocate for inclusive remote teams, he pairs hands-on technical judgment (multi-cloud, Kubernetes, IaC, observability) with a customer-service mindset that treats internal users as primary customers. Fun fact: his GitHub bio—“death star tech support”—reflects a pragmatic, wry approach to relentless operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems at University of South Florida
Github Skills (95)
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cookbook8
automation7
infrastructure7
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newrelic7
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GannettDigital/chef-appdynamics
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 3 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
akemner/linkerd-examples
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years
kubernetesconfigurelinkerd
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