Dexter Arver
Staff Engineer at VMware
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDexter Arver is a Staff Engineer based in San Jose with a decade of experience building and operating web systems and reliability-focused infrastructure at VMware. He progressed through roles from help desk and web developer to senior manager and now SRE-focused staff engineer, blending hands-on engineering with team leadership. Dexter prioritizes serving the people he manages, coaching career growth and improving day-to-day work for engineers as a key part of his craft. He currently focuses on keeping services at four nines availability, applying breadth across web, operations, and reliability disciplines. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate, he combines strong technical fundamentals with long-term institutional knowledge of large-scale enterprise systems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic leader who equally values polished systems and the human systems that run them.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (5)
staging7
openwrt6
linux5
docker5
container3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
vmware/vmware.github.io
Nov 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 11 months
vmware/photon
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Minimal Linux container host
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
containershostlinuxdockercontainer-linux
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