Fact Sheet
- Formal Education
- Computer Science Expert / Application Development (Fachinformatik / Anwendungsentwicklung)
- Core Competency
- AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Go, Linux
Professional Experience
May 2023
Current
Handelsblatt Media Group
Cloud Engineer, Digital Development
Central team managing Azure Infrastructure. Wrote tooling to enable self-service onboarding to and management of a GitHub organization (repositories, teams, permissions). Provided Kubernetes clusters, as well as standardized tooling and best practices to internal teams. Introduced new technology to our clusters, e.g. replacing our ingress with an API gateway and switched to Cilium for high performance networking.
Oct 2022
Apr 2023
REWE digital
Cloud Engineer, Security Engineering
Worked on project to generate and store SBOMs of all container images within the company.
Feb 2021
Sep 2022
REWE digital
Cloud Engineer, Platform Tribe
Worked on building GitHub Actions runner infrastructure, custom VM image and orchestration via autoscaler. Built and advocated for internal developer portal using Backstage.
Jan 2019
Jan 2021
Fashion Digital (Peek & Cloppenburg group Düsseldorf)
Developer, Cloud Architecture
Continuation of work at Fashion ID. Built in-house Kubernetes Ingress Controller with service-bound policies and OIDC authentication to scale across many clusters. Built a metrics aggregator and transformer, supporting Prometheus and TSDB format.
Developed more features for internal development platform, including standardized workflows for QA, advanced load balancing and language support for PHP/Symphony for onboarding more teams after the merger.
Apr 2018
Dec 2018
Fashion ID (Peek & Cloppenburg group Düsseldorf)
Developer, Architecture/Technology
Maintaining unmanaged Kubernetes clusters with Cloud Formation. Migration to Kubernetes with minimal disruption to developers with in-house platform
that handles application specification, continuous deployment, metrics and logging with a high degree of standardization. Also maintained libraries supporting standardization in Scala, Node and Go.
Jul 2017
Dec 2017
3Logic Systems (picarto.tv)
Application Developer
Aug 2014
Jun 2017
77ps - Agentur für Kommunikation
Apprenticeship - Computer Science Expert / Application Development
April 2013
Jul 2014
77ps - Agentur für Kommunikation
Intern - Web-Development
2010
2012
Freelance Developer
Various WordPress, PHP and Node.js projects.
Languages
Go
Go appealed to me because of its slim syntax and ideomatic approches to problem solving and has become my language of choice for productivity on the backend and wherever a problem is complex enough that the language to solve it should be simple and out of the way, especially when working on Code interacting with Kubernetes.
JavaScript
I have been involved with JavaScript since the early days of Node.js. As a developing technology with new libraries and tools being released on a daily basis, JS proved to be a great plaform for experimenting with exciting new technology and nearly universal portability.
Though I'm no longer writing JavaScript on a daily basis or try out every new framework, I'm still quite proficient with it.
Tools, Frameworks & Platforms
- Proficient
- AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Terraform, Git, GitHub, Gin
- Experienced
- Postgres, Argo CD, Keycloak, Vault, Ansible, Pulumi, LGTM / Grafana stack, Nix/NixOS
Volunteer Experience
Sep 2015
2017
GophersVids
Linux Administration
Maintaining WordPress, Forums, Redmine.