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
12 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)
exporter10
automation10
commons10
compose10
xiaomi10
credentials10
home-automation10
kodi10
screensaver10
openshift10
filesystem10
subsonic10
privacy10
jenkins10
oauth10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
ironicbadger/infra
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
99.7% less leaked credentials
Contributions:1 review, 80 commits, 38 PRs in 1 month
securityinfrastructurecredentialsinfrastructure-as-codetower
ironicbadger/ocp4
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Deployment code for Openshift 4.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 114 commits in 1 year 6 months
deploymentopenshift-v4kubernetesopenshift
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