Platform Engineer - Giant Swarm

(May 2020 – Present) / Remote

Responsible for building and developing Giant Swarm’s open-source infrastructure management platform (Kubernetes, Go)

• Cluster API (CAPI) / Cluster API Provider AWS (CAPA)
• AWS Infrastructure
• Kubernetes CRD / Conversion
• Kubernetes Operators ☸️

Software Engineer - Zalando SE

(Mar 2015 – Present) / Berlin, Germany

• Building Zalando’s Kubernetes Infrastructure on AWS
• Working on Zalando Payments AWS infrastructure becoming PCI-DSS certified
• Implement a DDos Solution to mitigate cloud-based traffic (AWS/GCP)
• Developing a Akamai Open Source Library

System Engineer - Zalando SE

(Jun 2014 – Mar 2015) / Berlin, Germany

• Maintain Zalando’s data centers
• Release of my first open source project, providing an API to automate service endpoints (DNS/IP)
• Working on a deployment framework using Mesos/Kubernetes

System Engineer - Zalando AG

(Jul 2013 - Jun 2014) / Berlin, Germany

• Set up a second Zalando data center
• Set up a payment infrastructure which fits for Zalando
• Design and setup a new load balancer infrastructure
• Implementation of an global traffic manager to distribute DNS-based requests across data centers
• CDN project in order to serve millions of images

System Operations - Zalando AG

(Oct 2011 - Jul 2013) / Berlin, Germany

• 24x7 team of Zalando
• Monitoring the Zalando site, responding to alerts, and troubleshooting
• Technical support of platform/servers
• Managing incidents that arise, escalating to the correct teams, and handling communication
• Building/Improving a reliable monitoring system

System Administrator - Walter Werbung GmbH

(Jul 2011 – Sep 2011) / Berlin, Germany

Education 🎓

• OSZ IMT (2008 - 2011) / Berlin

Articles 📰

• Building services with the Akamai OPEN API

Open Source / Projects I’m working on 🗺

• Maintainer - Elasticsearch Operator for Kubernetes
• Maintainer - External DNS for Kubernetes
• Maintainer - Kubernetes Egress Controller
• Creating Alexa skills for Amazon Echo