Alexander Dorn
Engineering Lead at Raisin
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Dorn is an engineering leader based in Berlin with over 17 years of hands-on experience and a 20+ year career footprint across startups and large enterprises, specializing in platform engineering, functional programming and agile coaching. He has led teams through acquisitions and migrations—most recently unifying platforms and CI/CD workflows at Dixa and Raisin—while shipping infrastructure-as-code solutions using Pulumi, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions. A practical people multiplier, he has driven recruitment, coaching and process changes that measurably improved developer productivity and satisfaction. Alexander pairs deep Linux expertise (Red Hat/Fedora, GNU Emacs) with a history of modernizing legacy systems into containerized, autoscaling platforms and custom DevOps services. Notably, he has taken ownership of open-source SDKs and built cross-company platform standards after acquisitions, showing a knack for blending technical stewardship with operational leadership.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Software Engineer (ISCED 4), IT (Software Development), Certified Software Engineer (ISCED 4), IT (Software Development) at OSZ TeltowAbitur (ISCED 3a), Mathematics, Physics, German, Religion, Abitur (ISCED 3a), Mathematics, Physics, German, Religion at Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium Uelzen
English, German
Github Skills (157)
query-client10
nix10
extensible10
nixos10
linux10
browser10
devtools10
mining10
sdk10
js10
rust10
flatpak10
python-modules10
nixpkgs10
common-lisp10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
outergod/cl-heredoc
Nov 2009 - Apr 2022
Common Lisp reader heredoc dispatcher
Contributions:1 review, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 12 years 6 months
common-lispheredoc
e-user/statehack
Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:189 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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