Alex Brunner
User Experience Research Manager at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Brunner is a User Experience Research Manager at Google with nine years of experience building and scaling UX research programs across mapping, cloud, urban design, and public health applications. He leads a small team focused on creating the most accurate and richly detailed model of the real world, combining hands-on studies with program-level strategy and infrastructure building. Previously he founded Sidewalk Labs’ UXR practice, running 25+ studies across product and incubation teams to reimagine cities for sustainability and affordability. His background spans operations, data-quality systems, and product launches at Google, a Google.org fellowship with Médecins Sans Frontières developing ML tools for antibiotic resistance, and early-stage entrepreneurship. Raised in the Austrian Alps with degrees in philosophy and international economics, he blends rigorous social-science thinking with practical product and research operations—and quietly dreams of building a skiing hut in Brooklyn.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MA (Mag. phil.), Philosophy, MA (Mag. phil.), Philosophy at Universität WienCEMS MIM, International Management, CEMS MIM, International Management at Handelshögskolan i StockholmBeyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology, Beyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyProduct Design, Product Design at Pratt InstituteUser Experience Design, User Experience Design at General AssemblyMSc (Mag.rer.soc.oec.), International Business, MSc (Mag.rer.soc.oec.), International Business at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
German, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (80)
command-line-interface10
relic10
developer-tools10
cli10
alerts10
newrelic10
golang9
recipe9
command-line9
sre9
risk-assessment8
openflow8
devops8
go8
observability8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
anamake/patientexpert
Jan 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1 release, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
abrunner94/maia
May 2019 - May 2019
Maia is a CLI that allows you to execute remote commands on multiple machines at once.
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 10 PRs in 8 days
machinesmultiple-machinescli
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