Christian Dickmann
Principal Engineer at VMware
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Dickmann is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of deep systems experience in kernel, OS, storage, networking and virtualization, currently focused on cloud-native Kubernetes and cloud-native storage at VMware. He was an early member and architect of VMware's Virtual SAN team, driving high-performance data paths, resilient testing and user-focused management features for HCI, and later built an internal R&D IaaS that multiplied QA efficiency by orders of magnitude. Proficient in C/C++, Java, Python and Ruby, he blends low-level systems engineering with tooling and observability—authoring monitoring, fault-injection test frameworks and pragmatic APIs. An ongoing open-source contributor, he has improved robustness of the vmware-archive/rbvmomi vSphere Ruby client, reflecting a mindset for stability and interoperability. Based in Germany, he pairs deep technical breadth with a customer-champion approach to make complex infrastructure simple to operate.
15 years of coding experience
Columbia UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at The University of Göttingen
Github Skills (5)
error-handling10
api10
vaapi10
ruby10
deserialization9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/rbvmomi
Apr 2012 - Mar 2014
Ruby interface to the VMware vSphere API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 3 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Christian focused on improving error handling and merging changes within the Ruby-based VMware vSphere API interface. Their commits include adjustments to error management within specific files and merging various branches, indicating a role in maintaining and enhancing the library's robustness. They also made changes to type loading and deserialization processes to deal with bad class names. Their work appears aimed at improving the library's stability and functionality.
apivmware-vsphereesxirubyvsphere-api
cdickmann/enhancements
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Features tracking repo for Kubernetes releases
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
kuberneteskubernetes-releasestracking
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