Gerrit Lehr
Principal Technology Strategist
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGerrit Lehr is a cloud strategist and technologist with eight years of experience helping enterprises and cloud providers design, monetize and operate multi-cloud services. He has held senior roles at VMware and Broadcom driving multi-cloud strategy, partner GTM and service monetization across EMEA, and now serves as Principal Technologist at Pure Storage while also working with Everpure. Gerrit blends technical depth with commercial insight—he's contributed to open-source projects like VMware's minimal Linux container host (photon), addressing build and packaging issues that keep complex build pipelines healthy. His background spans product management, portfolio design and field-facing strategy, enabling him to translate technical capabilities into viable business models. Based in the Greater Hamburg Area, he pairs formal management education with hands-on engineering experience, making him fluent across technical, commercial and operational domains. An uncommon strength is his track record of moving between deep technical work and executive strategy, allowing him to bridge engineering teams and C-suite priorities effectively.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), International Management, Master of Science (M.Sc.), International Management at Steinbeis HochschuleBachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Management / Strategic IT Management, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Management / Strategic IT Management at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementMaster of Business Administration (MBA), International Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Management at IEL Faculdade da Indústria
Github Skills (5)
python10
build-system9
yaml8
linux7
containerization6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/photon
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Minimal Linux container host
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1031 commits, 10014 pushes, 49 branches in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gerrit's commits primarily focus on modifying and enhancing the functionality of the `support/package-builder/GenerateOSSFiles.py` script. These changes involve adding and modifying URL settings in baseos yaml files, contributing to the build process for the minimal Linux container host. The user also addressed build breaks in the development environment, indicating active involvement in maintaining the project's build integrity and dependency management.
linux
vmware/photon-docker-image
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 14 pushes, 959 branches in 8 months
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