Axel Ulrich
Sr. Director, Software Development at Sagent
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAxel Ulrich is a pragmatic technology leader and Sr. Director of Software Development with over two decades of experience transforming legacy systems into scalable, cloud-native platforms and leading global teams of 50+. He has repeatedly delivered consumer-facing web and mobile solutions across marketing, sales, finance and customer service domains, most recently shaping digital platforms and CIAM, microservices, and DevOps practices at Marriott Vacations Worldwide and now Sagent. Skilled at stakeholder influence, mediation, and building trust-driven cultures, he combines enterprise architecture chops with hands-on experience in AWS migrations, CDNs, WAFs, and API-first architectures. His background in mechanical engineering and CAD-informed systems work gives him a rare systems-thinking perspective that informs both product and infrastructure decisions. Colleagues rely on him to make pragmatic trade-offs that balance secure coding, operational maturity, and business velocity.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master's in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Aided Engineering and Design, Master's in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Aided Engineering and Design at Hochschule Stralsund
German
Github Skills (54)
alpine-linux10
linux10
fiddler10
debugging9
docker9
server9
h2o9
http-client9
http-server9
password-generator8
websocket8
proxy8
http8
irc-server8
security8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
axelu/h2o
May 2020 - Jul 2020
H2O - the optimized HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 server
Contributions:109 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
h2ohttp3zerohttp-clienthttp2
axelu/leetcode
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:20 pushes in 4 years
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