Alex Heneveld
Co-founder & CTO at Cloudsoft Corporation
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Heneveld is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder/CTO with two decades of experience building enterprise and cloud application management software across startups, academia, and product companies. He co-founded the open-source Brooklyn project and has contributed to prominent cloud tooling like jclouds, OpenStack Heat and Whirr, bringing deep hands-on expertise in cloud provider integrations, concurrency, and remote execution. At Cloudsoft he evolved research prototypes into commercial products (Monterey Application Fabric) after earlier founding PocketWatch to commercialize his PhD work, demonstrating a rare blend of academic rigor and product focus. A Marshall Scholar with a PhD in Informatics from Edinburgh and an AB in Mathematics from Princeton, Alex is as comfortable refining low-level backend plumbing (OAuth, SSH, image-selection logic) as he is shaping standards (OASIS CAMP & TOSCA) that influence application management.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Informatics, PhD Informatics at The University of EdinburghAB Mathematics, AB Mathematics at Princeton University
french (fluent), spanish (proficient), german (cursory), chinese - mandarin (cursory)
Github Skills (17)
api-rest10
junit-test10
cloud-computing10
api-design10
restful-api10
testng10
testing10
java10
javas10
junit10
rest-api10
unit-test10
apidoc9
api9
concurrency9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jclouds/legacy-jclouds
Sep 2011 - Nov 2012
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:48 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the `jclouds/legacy-jclouds` repository's concurrency and REST API handling. They refactored and improved the `DescribedFuture` class for enhanced debugging and stack trace inclusion in exceptions. Additionally, the user addressed bugs, including those related to null parameter handling and incorrect brace replacements in the shell script builder. They also implemented and refined test cases for the REST annotation processor and SSH clients.
jclouds/jclouds
Oct 2013 - Mar 2016
Read-only mirror of ASF Git Repo for jclouds
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 21 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the `TemplateBuilderImpl` within the jclouds project, specifically adding functionalities like custom image choosers and sorters. They addressed several issues related to image selection logic, including preferring images based on architecture or name. Furthermore, the user implemented fixes for OAuth timeouts and project ID inference in Google Compute Engine, indicating involvement in cloud provider integrations. The contributions also include fixing an issue with multiple credentials on SoftLayer machines, improving login behavior.
jclouds
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