I am a Security expert and infrastructure engineer with over seven years of experience spanning operations, development, architecture, and research. I specialize in secure SDLC, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes security, with proven expertise in designing and implementing cloud-native security solutions. My approach emphasizes lean system design, robust security practices, and pragmatic architectural decisions. As a certified Cloud-Native Security Expert, I bring deep technical knowledge combined with strong communication and knowledge transfer capabilities. Beyond technical expertise, I excel at facilitating collaborative processes and bringing structure to team workflows. I have a talent for coordinating cross-functional work, leveraging team members’ strengths and interests to drive effective outcomes. My background in mediation and conflict resolution enables me to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and keep projects moving forward constructively.

Christoph Jonathan Schulthess

I am a Security expert and infrastructure engineer with over seven years of experience spanning operations, development, architecture, and research. I specialize in secure SDLC, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes security, with proven expertise in designing and implementing cloud-native security solutions. My approach emphasizes lean system design, robust security practices, and pragmatic architectural decisions. As a certified Cloud-Native Security Expert, I bring deep technical knowledge combined with strong communication and knowledge transfer capabilities. Beyond technical expertise, I excel at facilitating collaborative processes and bringing structure to team workflows. I have a talent for coordinating cross-functional work, leveraging team members’ strengths and interests to drive effective outcomes. My background in mediation and conflict resolution enables me to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and keep projects moving forward constructively.

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I am a Security expert and infrastructure engineer with over seven years of experience spanning operations, development, architecture, and research. I specialize in secure SDLC, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes security, with proven expertise in designing and implementing cloud-native security solutions. My approach emphasizes lean system design, robust security practices, and pragmatic architectural decisions. As a certified Cloud-Native Security Expert, I bring deep technical knowledge combined with strong communication and knowledge transfer capabilities.

Beyond technical expertise, I excel at facilitating collaborative processes and bringing structure to team workflows. I have a talent for coordinating cross-functional work, leveraging team members’ strengths and interests to drive effective outcomes. My background in mediation and conflict resolution enables me to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and keep projects moving forward constructively.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate

Language

German
Fluent
English
Advanced
Italian
Intermediate

Work Experience

Security Expert, DevSecOps Engineer & Software Architect at MGM Security Partners
May 1, 2022 - November 1, 2025
Software architect for an in-house application security posture management tool; designed and implemented a Kubernetes-based architecture with key components developed in Java. Conducted market analysis and implemented proof-of-concept solutions for company-wide secret management tooling; created and maintained Helm charts for application deployments and infrastructure components; developed audit automation tools; maintained legacy environments with Ansible.
Researcher, Chair of Service-Centric Networks (Snet) at Technical University Berlin
January 1, 2021 - December 1, 2021
Developed industry use-case of anomaly detection data pipelines for large volumes of sensor data; explored decentralized name systems, peer-to-peer architectures and governance in decentralized networks.
DevOps Engineer at Endocode AG
August 1, 2019 - December 1, 2020
Designed and developed cloud architectures in GCP; provisioned environments via Terraform on Kubernetes GKE; automated container security scanning; wrote shared libraries for Jenkins CI/CD; refactored code for QMSTR, a tool for automated license checking.
System Engineer at init
September 1, 2018 - July 1, 2019
Administered LAMP systems and JBoss/Wildfly applications; set up monitoring with Nagios/Icinga; conducted load/stress tests with Blazemeter/JMeter; configuration management with Ansible and Puppet.

Education

M. Sc. Computer Science at Albert-Ludwig-University, Freiburg im Breisgau
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2017
Erasmus Term at Dokuz Eylül University
June 1, 2016 - August 1, 2016
B. Sc. Computer Science and Media at Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2013
B. A. History/Comparative Religious Sciences at Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009

Qualifications

Certified Cloud-Native Security Expert (CCNSE)
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Practical DevSecOps
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Microservice architecture
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Containers & container security
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Hacking Kubernetes clusters
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Kubernetes authentication and authorization
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Kubernetes admission controllers
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Kubernetes data security
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Kubernetes network security
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Defending Kubernetes clusters
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Foundations of Mediation and Conflict Resolution
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025

Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education, Media & Entertainment