Alex Rocha
Senior Software Engineer at VMware
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Rocha is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of professional experience and a long trajectory building robust, distributed systems from enterprise Java stacks to cloud-native platforms. Currently at VMware and formerly at TACC, Thomson Reuters, and UTPA, he brings deep backend expertise in Java, Python, identity federation, DevOps, and cloud technologies like OpenStack and Docker. He contributes to notable open-source work on Cloud Foundry’s cloud_controller_ng, implementing route-sharing and transfer features that improved permissions, transaction handling, and observability. A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, Alex pairs disciplined, mission-focused problem solving with hands-on engineering and a track record of shipping reliable, production-grade services. Based in Austin, he blends systems-level thinking with practical implementation across databases, APIs, and web front ends.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Information Science, BS, Computer Information Science at Minnesota State University, MankatoSoftware Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Texas Tech University
Github Skills (12)
api-rest10
rspec10
rest-api10
api10
cloud-foundry10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
ruby10
postgresql9
transactional9
transaction9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to implementing and refining features related to route sharing and transfer within the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller. They developed a new endpoint for sharing routes across spaces and made updates to improve error messaging. Furthermore, they worked on the action for transferring route ownership, ensuring the correct event logging and handling of transactions. They also addressed issues related to permissions and app mapping in shared spaces, ensuring the correct validations.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
ChameleonCloud/horizon
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
Horizon is a Django-based project aimed at providing a complete OpenStack Dashboard along with an extensible framework for building new dashboards from reusable components.
Contributions:90 commits, 8 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 8 months
horizondjangodashboardsreusable-componentsextensible
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