Paul Warren
Tech Lead, Tanzu Developer & Operator Tools, VMWare At VMware
San Ramon, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Warren is a seasoned cloud-native technologist and tech lead with 11+ years driving developer and operator tooling at VMware, currently leading Tanzu Developer & Operator Tools and product efforts for cf-for-k8s. He has been a key architect and anchor of Cloud Foundry volume services—designing and delivering OSS and commercial releases that support NFS, SMB, EFS and CSI—and is a voting member of the CSI specification. Paul blends product management and hands-on engineering, contributing to critical CF acceptance tests to keep compatibility with cf CLI v7 and evolving feature flags. His background spans deep platform work at EMC/DellEMC, where he evangelized Spring, Cloud Foundry and cloud-native patterns while advising CTO teams and transforming storage into multi-cloud services. Based in San Ramon, he pairs long-term systems design experience with pragmatic DevOps delivery, and is known for pushing integration points between Spring, service brokers and container platforms. He often operates at the intersection of architecture, open source stewardship and productization, turning incubation projects into broadly adopted platform components.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Brighton University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
docker10
cloud-foundry10
dockers10
mysql9
testing9
cicd9
spring9
spring-boot9
automation9
configurations9
automations9
go8
stream6
html6
video-streaming6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cf-acceptance-tests
May 2020 - Dec 2020
CF Acceptance tests
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions focus on modifying and maintaining the configuration and tests within the `cf-acceptance-tests` repository. They enabled and disabled feature flags related to Docker, updated the code to support `cf cli v7` and merged changes into the release-candidate branch. The changes included updating configuration defaults and removing configurable windows stack settings, indicating responsibilities related to ensuring the tests function correctly with different feature settings and Cloud Foundry versions.
testingacceptance-testscff-wg-app-runtime-deploymentsacceptance
paulcwarren/spring-docs
May 2020 - Dec 2020
A sample application for using database and storage services on Cloud Foundry with Spring Framework.
Contributions:6 commits, 19 PRs, 60 pushes in 6 months
spring-bootfoundryspring-frameworkspring-datacloud-foundry
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