Alexander Klimetschek
Principal Scientist at Adobe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Klimetschek is a Principal Scientist at Adobe with over 13 years of experience architecting and shipping enterprise CMS and web frameworks, including foundational work on CQ5/AEM and a recent redesign of AEM Assets for cloud-native, scalable delivery. He combines deep systems-level expertise in JCR, Apache Jackrabbit and Sling with hands-on engineering across Java, NodeJS, C/C++ and graphics, and is an active committer at the Apache Software Foundation. A pragmatic advocate for DevOps, KISS design, and usability, he led the AEM team’s transition to cloud and DevOps practices while continuing to support complex customer PoCs and escalations. He also brings entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder and former chief architect of Mindquarry and early research background in 3D city modeling and geovisualization. Based in San Francisco with an HPI Potsdam master's in Software Systems Engineering, he blends product-grade architecture with practical open-source stewardship and a preference for lean, effective frameworks.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Software Systems Engineering Information Technology, Master of Software Systems Engineering Information Technology at Hasso Plattner InstituteGCSE, GCSE at Hockerill Anglo-European CollegeGymnasium Steglitz
German, English
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Github Skills (200)
cfml10
testing10
npm-package10
helix10
serverless-offline10
nodejs10
oclif10
timer10
adobe-experience-manager10
jcr10
aem10
validate10
ruby10
oak10
serverless-plugin10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/sizewatcher
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Warns if your pull requests introduce large size increases
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 74 commits in 2 years
pull-requestpull-requestsintroducecontinuous-integrationci
adobe/wskdebug
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Debugging and live development tool for Apache OpenWhisk
Contributions:11 releases, 220 commits, 32 PRs in 9 months
serverlessapachelive-developmentapache-openwhiskcloud
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