Cloud & Container Expert

11/2021 – 1/2022

As the Senior Kubernetes Engineer, I was brought in to help fix long-standing issues with the existing Kubernetes deployments.
Within two weeks, I could provide a root cause analysis and workarounds and recommend a long-term solution.

5/2021 – 11/2021

- Designed and implemented continuos integration pipelines
- Developed and implemented a testing strategy for android navigation software using Audi´s own testing framework and hardware
- Automated test & release report generation and distribution

5/2020 – 4/2021

- Enabling customers to move their workloads from dedicated EC2 machines towards EKS.
- Consulting on and implementing solutions to scale based on the event-driven architecture already in place.
- Preparing the newly created EKS clusters to work for ML workflows.
- Setup for a new monitoring solution including metrics and tracing.
Configuration of all services to work with istio.

4/2020 – 4/2021

- Leading the companies move towards container orchestration on the Google Cloud Platform.
- Implementing monitoring best practices using ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, and Stackdriver.
- Enabling developer teams to seamlessly launch new products due to consulting throughout the process and the engineering of simple yet effective CI / CD pipelines.

4/2019 – 4/2020

- Provisioning of cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
- Implementing solutions protecting against the use of CVEs in dependencies.
- Troubleshooting of production outages, performance degradation, and networking issues.
- Spearheading the migration from Docker-Compose towards Kubernetes, reducing costs, and
simplifying deployments.
• Design and Implementation of CI / CD pipelines.
• Reduced the number of releases with CVEs through automated dependency scans.
• Support of four team members through continuous one on ones.

2/2019 – 4/2019

- Developed high-availability REST APIs using Golang in a micro-service architecture.
- Deployed and maintained services with AWS Lambda and Serverless.
- Guaranteed high build and code quality through our CI / CD pipeline and constant code review.