Alex Kretzschmar
Head Of Developer Relations
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kretzschmar is Head of Developer Relations at Tailscale with 11 years of experience bridging cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and operator needs. He progressed rapidly through advocacy roles at Tailscale after a strong foundation at Red Hat where he guided partners and cloud success initiatives, and earlier honed container and OpenShift expertise as a DevOps lead at Worldpay. Based in Raleigh, Alex pairs technical depth—MSc in Computer Science—with a knack for making complex networking and cloud topics accessible to engineers and communities. He also brings a media-savvy edge from six years as a podcaster, which sharpens his public-facing communication and content strategy. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving and a dry, self-aware humor reflected in a GitHub bio that reads “I do stuff with computers and sometimes it works.”
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music at The University of SalfordMaster of Science (MSc) Distinction Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Distinction Computer Science at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (200)
home-assistant-integration10
automation10
credentials10
kodi10
screensaver10
openshift10
openshift-v410
filesystem10
subsonic10
oauth10
python10
wireguard10
home-assistant10
ansible-role10
ssh10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
selfhostedshow/wiki
Feb 2020 - May 2022
The official Wiki of the selfhosted.show Podcast.
Contributions:23 reviews, 63 commits, 72 PRs in 2 years 3 months
wikiselfhostedpodcast
ironicbadger/Casper
Jul 2020 - Jan 2025
The default theme for Ghost
Contributions:63 pushes in 4 years 5 months
ghostdefault-theme
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