David Vonthenen Email & Phone Number

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Senior member of the Developer Advocate team tasked with forward-looking initiatives and guiding strategic direction to increase platform adoption and sales growth. This encompasses diverse duties, from crafting SDKs, facilitating software integrations, offering technical insights for the developer ecosystem, writing blog articles and instructional content, and helping with the company's marketing campaigns.

Long Beach, California, United States

Hired to create the developer advocacy program to provide a blueprint for the company. This included creating SDKs, developing software integrations, providing technical expertise in customer sales meetings, authoring blog posts and training material, and contributing to the company's social media/marketing campaigns.

Long Beach, Ca

Modern Applications Platform Business Unit (Feb 2018 to Aug 2022) - Staff Software Engineer-----Cloud Native Engineer and Developer Advocate, who provided the initial foundation for VMware's Kubernetes strategy. Architected and implemented multiple critical Kubernetes services that enabled VMware to operate as a Kubernetes cloud provider. This required writing an enormous amount of software development and evangelizing initiatives in the Kubernetes ecosystem.Dell/EMC – Emerging Technologies Division (Oct 2015 - Feb 2018) - Staff Software Engineer -----Transferred into Dell/EMC's Emerging Technology Division where I took on Developer Advocate role with the Dell/EMC {code} team. I was tasked to create open source projects and contributions to the Kubernetes and Docker ecosystems that aligned with Dell/EMC's software initiative. The {code} team and projects were transferred to VMware (above) to increase acceleration/adoption.Dell/EMC – Backup/Recovery Solutions (Oct 2010 - Oct 2010) - Sr. Principal Software Engineer -----Lead Software Engineer turned team manager for 20+ on Backup/Recovery solutions specializing in VMware Virtualization backup. Grew the business unit's revenue from $880 Million to $2.18 Billion, and ~80% of that revenue increase was directly attributed to our development of virtualization backup.

Developed and optimized remote management applications and drivers for Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet, and iSCSI storage adapters, including ASIC firmware programming for manufacturing. Every 4GB and 8GB storage adapter shipped was programmed and managed by software I had built.

Chemistry, Organic Chemistry

Computer Science, Networks/Distributed Systems And Embedded Systems