Ben Alex

Sydney, NSW Australia

Software Engineer

Technology / Software / Internet

I'm currently on sabbatical, investigating a range of interesting opportunities for what comes next. In my last role I was a Senior Staff Engineer with VMware, having joined the company as part of its 2009 SpringSource acquisition. At VMware and SpringSource I created a variety of technologies. These included Elastic Runtime, an auto-scaling, fault tolerant cloud platform, and Spring Roo, which is a popular Java-based rapid application development platform. The user interface technology in Spring Roo was extracted and made into Spring Shell, which in turn underpins many other commercial and open-source products. I also created Spring User Agent Analysis, which collects hundreds of mill...