Alex Kestner
Principal Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Kestner is a Principal Product Manager at AWS with 12 years of experience bridging software engineering, product leadership, and entrepreneurship. After five years as a professional musician he pivoted to tech, co-founding Lunchtime Labs and later moving into product roles at AWS where he now leads container-focused initiatives. He combines hands-on full-stack development experience—evidenced by contributions to the Karpenter project’s website and documentation tooling—with MBA-trained business judgment from NYU Stern. Based in Seattle, Alex is comfortable shipping both developer-facing infrastructure features and polished front-end experiences, and brings an uncommon blend of creative background, startup grit, and cloud-native expertise to product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Wesleyan UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at NYU Stern School of Business
English, Italian
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Github Skills (12)
hugo10
javascript10
website-development10
html9
css9
documentation8
lunrjs8
go7
jenkins6
version-control6
continuous-integration6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/karpenter-provider-aws
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 13 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the website component of the Karpenter project. Their work involved developing and modifying website layouts, landing pages, and navigation elements. They also implemented version-aware documentation search functionality and updated the website build process. Additionally, the user contributed to the website's JavaScript functionality, including the addition of a version warning and incorporating offline search capabilities.
autoscalingperformancek8skubernetesnodejs
akestner/karpenter
Jun 2021 - Sep 2024
Kubernetes Node Autoscaling: built for flexibility, performance, and scalability.
Contributions:76 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 3 months
hands-onrolloutautoscalingperformancek8s
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