Gunnar Aasen
Director, Product Management at Saviynt
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolGunnar Aasen is a product leader and former engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused infrastructure and observability products. Currently Director of Product Management at Saviynt after leading product initiatives at InfluxData, he blends hands-on backend engineering—contributions to prominent open-source projects like InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Chronograf—with strategic product leadership. Gunnar’s work spans data ingestion pipelines, plugin systems, and documentation, reflecting a rare combination of code-level refactors and product-facing decisions. A Berkeley-based MBA who started as a support engineer and moved through partner engineering into product management, he brings deep empathy for developer workflows and operational robustness. He’s comfortable shipping both technical fixes (e.g., removing deprecated ingestion paths) and product experiences that scale for monitoring and real-time analytics.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
10-week intensive course Product Management, 10-week intensive course Product Management at General AssemblyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessB.S. Chemical Engineering, B.S. Chemical Engineering at Columbia Engineering
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Github contributions (5)
influxdata/docs.influxdata.com-ARCHIVE
Sep 2015 - May 2020
ARCHIVE - 1.x docs for InfluxData
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:148 commits, 78 PRs, 88 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gunnar's commits primarily involve modifications to documentation files. These changes include the creation of new documentation sections, updates to existing pages, and the addition of contributing guidelines. The work encompasses adding glossaries, warnings about outdated versions, and incorporating links to current product versions. This indicates a focus on improving the user experience and ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the documentation.
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influxdata/influxdb
Apr 2015 - Jun 2020
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 commits, 111 PRs, 178 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gunnar primarily focused on refactoring and removing deprecated code paths within the InfluxDB codebase. Specifically, they removed an outdated JSON write path, indicating a focus on improving the efficiency and maintainability of the data ingestion process. Further commits involved adding support for multiple collectd and OpenTSDB inputs and providing environmental overrides for input configuration. This work demonstrates a solid understanding of back-end system architecture, data ingestion pipelines, and configuration management.
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