Alexander Jackson
Staff II Engineer at VMware
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Jackson is a Staff II Engineer in Boulder with 13 years of engineering and leadership experience building cloud-native, high-performance systems and small collaborative teams. He blends hands-on backend expertise in Java, Hibernate, Unix, and performance tuning with agile/XP practices and a strong emphasis on TDD and coaching. At VMware (and previously Pivotal) he moved between principal, distinguished, and director roles, pairing technical depth with people leadership across security and platform efforts. He contributes to open-source cloud projects—notably improving robustness and connection reuse in Cloud Foundry’s loggregator—highlighting a focus on reliability and resource efficiency in distributed logging. Colleagues describe him as iterative, team-oriented, and driven by learning and delivering valuable software rather than title alone.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Michigan Technological UniversityUniversity of California, BerkeleyPrincipia CollegeYreka High
Github Skills (10)
logging10
go10
logger10
sys10
concurrency10
testing10
api-design9
networking9
architecture8
architectures8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/loggregator-release
Jun 2013 - Jul 2015
Cloud Native Logging
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the `loggregator-release` repository, focusing on refining and improving the logging functionalities. Their work involved fixing race conditions in the read logic, removing unused code, and ensuring proper resource management, as seen in the cleanup of logging streams and task listeners. They also worked on reusing HTTP client connections for improved performance. This indicates a focus on optimizing the system's core logging features and preventing potential issues.
cloud-nativeloggingcff-wg-app-runtime-platform
cloudfoundry/loggregator_emitter
Aug 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 7 months
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