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Alexander Scheel is an open-source software developer working at GitLab on Secrets Management for Govern:Pipeline_Security and is a member of the Artaria String Quartet's Board of Directors.

Previously, he was employed at Keyfactor working on Bouncy Castle, at HashiCorp leading PKI and FIPS compliance for Vault, at Canonical working on Compliance and Certifications, and at Red Hat working on Red Hat Certificate System and Compliance as Code (an OpenSCAP project). He is the former maintainer of JSS, a NSS wrapper for Java and a member of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle, a registered Australian non-profit.

He is a strong advocate for Open Source Software and Open Access research, leaving HashiCorp over the relicensing to the non-OSS Business Source License.

Alex contributes to various projects on GitHub, including to the OpenBao project (GitHub), a fork of HashiCorp Vault, where he is the TSC Chair and chair of the Development Working Group. Previously he contributed to the Fedora Package Ecosystem and the Stewardship SIG under the nickname cipherboy.

In his free time, he studies violin under Hong-Yi Mo of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; his previous teachers include Boro Martinic-Jercic at Iowa State University, Aaron Janse of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Artaria String Quartet, and DeAnn Spencer.

Alex plays on a 2018 Feng Jiang Strad P violin with Zhang Ming Sheng and Ole Kanestrom bows.