Alex Clemmer
CEO at Moment
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Clemmer is a Seattle-based engineering leader and founder with 14 years of experience building cloud-native tooling and developer experiences, currently serving as CEO of Moment. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—contributing substantive parser and lexer work to go-jsonnet and implementing resource-tracing and GKE support in Pulumi’s kubespy—with product leadership that shapes collaborative Markdown workflows. His background includes core infrastructure work at Microsoft (OSS’ing BitFunnel and Mesos integration) and shaping Kubernetes-focused developer tools at Heptio and Pulumi. Known for pragmatic refactors and protocol-level improvements (gRPC cancel semantics, SDK cleanups), he pairs deep technical ownership with a knack for shipping usable platform features.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (47)
kubernetes10
c-language10
abstract-syntax-tree10
protocol-buffers10
typescript10
build-system10
cmake10
pulumi10
go10
lexical-analysis10
parsing10
jsonnet10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
typescripts10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/kubespy
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time, powered by Pulumi.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 23 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed significantly to the `kubespy` project by implementing the `kubespy trace` feature for `v1/Service` and `Deployment` resources. This included writing Go code to watch Kubernetes resources and display their status. The user also added build utilities and implemented the `kubespy version` command, indicating a focus on project utilities and tooling. Additionally, the user added support for GKE, suggesting experience in cloud environment configuration and integration.
kuberneteskubernetes-resourcespulumiobservingreal-time
ksonnet/ksonnet
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
A CLI-supported framework that streamlines writing and deployment of Kubernetes configurations to multiple clusters.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:69 commits, 53 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on updating dependencies, refactoring code, and transitioning the project away from CGO to go-jsonnet. They implemented new native functions within the `utils` package, including JSON and YAML parsing, regex manipulation, and image resolution. Additionally, the user added schemas for `app.yaml` and `registry.yaml` files and worked on initializing the `incubator` registry during the `ks init` process. They also made changes to the `dep` command and restructured the `metadata` package, showing a focus on package management and project initialization.
golangstreamlineskubernetes-deploymentclustersdeployment
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