Alex Thieme
Founder at probler.ai
Upton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Thieme is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 12 years building data-centric, distributed systems for robotics, autonomous vehicles, mobile and web industries. He blends product management, design, architecture and hands-on development, having held senior engineering and product roles at Amazon robotics, MuleSoft, and Shopify before moving into venture and startup founding. At MuleSoft he improved core performance of the open-source Mule runtime by enhancing Jetty thread management and adding configurable acceptor threads, demonstrating a focus on pragmatic, production-grade scalability. He has led engineering teams end-to-end—recruiting, mentoring, and setting technical direction—while shipping shared services and API platforms at scale. Based in Upton, Massachusetts, Alex pairs startup grit with enterprise experience, moving fluidly between CTO-level strategy and low-level systems engineering. He often combines product intuition with measurable performance improvements that quietly elevate system throughput and reliability.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree History Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree History Computer Science at Providence College
English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
junit10
mule-esb10
multithreading10
java10
jetty10
jtest10
http9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mulesoft/mule
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Mule Community Edition
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the MuleSoft Mule community edition's Jetty HTTP connector, particularly related to thread management and performance. They added the capability to configure the number of acceptor threads used by Jetty, improving throughput. The user implemented functional tests to validate the configuration options and verify their correct implementation. Additional changes included refactoring and code style improvements, adhering to MuleSoft's coding standards.
mulecommunity-edition
athieme/photobooth
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 1 month
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