Alexander Herrmann

Unanet - Senior Software Engineer

September 2023 - Present

• Improved legacy software development with common-sense CI/CD and tooling improvements learned from building startups.
• Worked directly with CTO on a daily basis to enable large government contractors to work outside of USD

mysherpas - Principal Software Engineer

March 2022 - September 2023

• Spearheaded the design and development of the core (Java/Next.js) product from inception. Partners estimate it saves dozens of hours a week for their teams after initial implementation.
• Lead end-to-end software development operations, encompassing everything from initial code creation to selection and implementation of development processes, tools, and cloud services
• Established and optimized CI/CD processes, resulting in a one minute deployment using AWS and Bitbucket
• Led the relationship with our 3rd party operations team, handing over Terraform powered AWS infra. A learning experience for them, they have now adopted it internally.

OpenedEdge/GPI - Software Engineer II

June 2019 - March 2022

• Successfully transitioned and expanded 3PointData's legacy software post-acquisition by GPI
• Collaborated across teams to offload work to more dedicated resources, allowing developers to focus on building
• Created a new product (Java and React) with only 2 other developers that collects millions of dollars in payments a year
• Brought the momentum and efficiency of a startup team to a larger corporate framework, ensuring consistent high-speed development

3PointData - Software Engineer

May 2015 - June 2019

• Created a (private) customer facing site that interacted with our support systems via API (Jira, Jenkins, etc)
• Reduced waste by automating large parts of all repeatable workflows
• Worked with many international teams across Europe, UK, New Zealand, and Australia
• Built out an extensive testing framework involving a mixture of unit, API and browser automation tests using Selenium
• Overhauled DevOps process with Docker using inexpensive self-hosted instances
• Java EE, Spring, Ember.js main stack serving more than 20 million requests per day