Alexandra Settle
Senior Product Manager at SUSE
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolAlexandra Settle is a senior product leader and former engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and guiding cloud and storage solutions, currently driving product strategy for SUSE’s cloud-native cluster management portfolio from Brisbane. She combines a creative-writing background with a recently completed Master’s in Computer Science, enabling clear technical communication and data-informed product decisions. Alex’s early career as a technical writer and long-standing OpenStack involvement—contributing code to Cinder’s FalconStor driver and maintaining upstream manuals and Ansible docs—gives her rare product empathy for both users and maintainers of open-source storage stacks like Ceph and Swift. She has led engineering teams of a dozen, owned cross-functional roadmaps, and translated customer interviews, workload analysis, and upstream roadmaps into enterprise product direction. Colleagues rely on her ability to surface non-obvious operational trade-offs from upstream projects into pragmatic go-to-market features. Her mix of hands-on storage contributions and leadership across engineering, documentation, and product makes her effective at aligning technical depth with business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Creative Industries Creative Writing Journalism, Bachelor of Creative Industries Creative Writing Journalism at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Master of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at University of Liverpool6.00.1x Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python, 6.00.1x Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python at MITx Courses
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Github Skills (18)
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storage10
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openstack10
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service-design10
openstack-cinder10
service-provider10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-manuals
Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:60 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexandra primarily contributes to the `openstack/openstack-manuals` repository, focusing on documentation updates and improvements. Their commits address issues like incorrect commands, outdated syntax, and missing guidelines, enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the documentation. These changes include adding notes, correcting log levels, and updating the documentation for various OpenStack guides, such as the install, contributor, and admin guides. This indicates a strong focus on maintaining and improving the project's documentation.
manualsopendevopenstack
openstack/openstack-ansible
Dec 2016 - Oct 2019
Ansible playbooks for deploying OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:19 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alexandra's commits primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the `openstack-ansible` project. Their contributions involved correcting broken links, updating content for clarity, removing outdated information, and adding new sections to the operations guide. They also reordered the table of contents and addressed documentation-related bugs.
deployingansibleopendevansible-playbooksopenstack
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