DevOps, Automation, Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, Software Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Interim Leadership, Consulting,

Profile:

• Being a naturally curious person, I have always tried to look behind the curtain of everything that came my way, so I found information technology to keep me interested on an every-day basis. This interest and my long-term experience in a multitude of topics enable me to dive deep and catch an idea about underlying models promptly, so that I can make valid suggestions about improvements instantly while emphasizing the strategic end-to-end thought.
• If personal involvement is needed, I will eagerly go hands-on in any technology. By thinking out of the box, I typically rate most technical problems to be solvable in a straight-forward way so I will proactively drive technical or cultural topics. With my broad versatility, strategic and holistic thinking, you will oVen find me solving multiple tasks at the same time by finding and exploiting synergetic factors.
• As an agile driver and lean enthusiast, my networking and communication skills help in finding a collabora.ve solution. I will always support my colleagues to develop a growth mindset to the best of their own, the company or team. Developing trust within team structures in short time will create transparency, confidence and cultural alignment, so that members chase the company’s goals out of their own motivation.

About me:

• I have always tried to look behind the curtain of everything that came my way, so I found information technology to give me something to keep me interested on an every-day basis.
  This interest and my long-term experience enable me to dive deep into any topic and catch an idea about the underlying model promptly. By correlating the topic in question with known structures, I can make valid suggestions about improvements instantly while emphasizing the end-to-end thought.
• If personal involvement is needed, I will eagerly and gladfully go hands-on in any technology, even with little or no preparation at all. Thinking out of the box while connecting my development background with strong operational and analytic skills, I typically rate most technical problems to be solvable in a straight-forward way and will proactively drive any topic. With my broad versatility, strategic and holistic thinking, you will often find me solving multiple tasks at the same time by finding and utilizing synergetic factors.
• As an agile driver and lean enthusiast, my proven networking and communication skills help in finding a collaborative solution or providing sustainable advice wherever needed while my natural growth mindset enables me asking the right questions to utilize challenges to the advantage of experience. With this exact mindset, I will always support my colleagues to evolve their skills to the best of the company or team. By generating trust within teams in short time, I will create transparency, confidence and cultural alignment, so that members chase the company’s goals out of their own effort.

Features:

• Servant leader and people developer with exceptional team capabilities
• Heavily strategic technical project planning capabilities
• Networker and true agile mindset driver with a natural growth mindset
• Strong technical and developer background
• Rapid adaption to new challenges and technologies
• Problem prevention by quickly finding edge cases and root causes
• Creative, holistic-thinking business professional

Work history:

2019 - 2019:

Tasks:

Accenture Technologies Living DevOps / Solution IQ, Sr Management Automation

2018 – 2019:

Customer: Zeppelin Z-Lab Garching

Role: DevOps Engineer

2013 – 2018:

Customer: Optile GmbH

Role: DevOps Architect

2013 - 2013:

Customer: Axel Springer Berlin

Role: Software development in paywall project

2011 – 2013:

Customer: IAIS Fraunhofer

Role: Software development and Operations in project

2002 – 2012:

Role: Freelancer, multiple projects with varying aspects and complexities

IDEs:

IntelliJ Idea, RubyMine, vi, Netbeans, Eclipse, npp

Language-specific technology:

• Frameworks:
  • Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hazelcast, Neo4J, Jetty
• Testing:
  • TestNG, Selenium / selenide, cucumber, Browserstack
• Build:
  • Maven, Ant
• Webcontainers:
  • Tomcat, VertX, Virgo / OSGi, Django

DevOps toolstack:

• Automation:
  • Jenkins, GoCD, gitlab pipelines
• Configuration:
  • puppet, terraform, ansible, foreman
• Logging:
  • ELK, Sentry, rsyslog
• Monitoring:
  • Icinga, CheckMK, Zabbix, Prometheus, VictorOps

Operations specific:

• Data / storage:
  • Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, Neo4J, Redis, ActiveMQ, Elasticsearch
• Virtualization:
  • Docker, Citrix XenServer, VmWare, Docker, KVM, HyperV
• Operating Systems:
  • Debian Linux, CentOS / Redhat, Windows, MacOS, BSD
• Network:
  • extended network and firewall knowledge
• Server Hardware:
  • Dell, Lenovo, HP, Fujitsu Datastorage
• Webservers:
  • NginX, Apache, AEM
• Security:
  • auditd, aide, naxsi, AlienVault, openssl, vault
• Basic services:
  • isc-dhcpd + relay, bind9, djbdns, TFTPd, ssh

Cloud:

AWS, (GCE)

Template engines:

Django, Jinja2, Freemarker, EPP, ERB

Project Tools:

Atlassian Jira (admin), GitHub, Nexus, Lucidchart, MS-Office

Encryption:

multiple public key and symmetric encryption protocols

Agile processes:

Kanban, Scrum, lean

Other (not limited to):

git, XML, HTML, CSS, HTTP, REST, json, SSL, LaTeX, regex, RDF

Current projects and personal playground:

• Further developing high output management and BPM skills
• Further IT architecture upskilling
• Kubernetes on GCE, AWS
• Hashicorp stack: nomad, consul, vault

Clifton Strengthfinder 34 persona top 10:

• Strategic
• Ideation
• Restorative
• Winning others over
• Empathy
• Learner
• Arranger
• Relator
• Activator
• Individualization

Extraordinary Achievements:

• Supported a DAX enterprise in cultural change towards agile and DevOps with an assessment and action plan in around 15 days on site with a highly appreciated result
• Transformed internal staffing structures towards a scalable process in two weeks, performance visible within 4 weeks.
• Career counselor, trainer and mentor for multiple colleagues
• Achieved PCI-DSS level 1 certification with a small project team, while being accredited little chance of success by the auditors in advance.
• Kept up 100% uptime in core product since 2015, approaching 4y 24/7 of on-call duty without incidents
• Processed dataset > 420mio entries into ontology database in 5 days, when contractor was unable to achieve goal at all
• Multiple times found hidden solutions for complex problems in project kickoff planning, at times rendering the specific project itself obsolete
• I was trusted by the professors in university to tutor master’s courses while that time not having a degree myself.
• In 2008 created an Adobe Flash based touch-panel prototype on site in China for a huge contractor for a pitch, triggering Linux Flash hardware support project for Intel graphics chips