Site Reliability Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Connectivity Services

Drove platform resilience and security by implementing an internal PKI structure and presenting the Azure DDoS protection tool, ensuring systems were resilient and up-to-date. Elevated observability and proactive incident management by championing OpenSearch AI solutions, specifically configuring anomaly detection for platform metrics. Streamlined post-incident review and collaboration by regularly moderating Postmortem meetings and automating the generation of alert analysis reports using Opsgenie, effectively bridging the gap between Ops and Dev teams. Enhanced internal compliance and access control by integrating OpenSearch with local OpenID authentication and establishing secure internal SSL communications. Secured and managed critical developer tools by successfully migrating and maintaining the Bitwarden password management solution to the cloud environment.

Senior Platform Engineer at Deepc

Elevated observability and performance by collecting metrics from remote endpoints using Rust, then centralized them in Prometheus via OpenTelemetry, providing a comprehensive monitoring solution. Optimized Knative Serving platform by developing a solution to provide custom certificates and setting up the service to support certificates issued by internal CAs, enhancing security and compliance for customer deployments. Drove infrastructure automation and security through the creation of a Rust-based solution for detecting unauthorized SSH connections on worker nodes, significantly improving the setup of remote machines. Improved platform reliability and GitOps adoption by migrating the monitoring stack management to Flux, improving configuration consistency, and successfully replacing RabbitMQ with NATS for a more scalable messaging solution. Spearheaded AWS asset management for a newly acquired company using AWS Control Tower, enabling rapid integration and consistent governance acros

Site Reliability Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Connectivity Services

Led CI/CD modernization by migrating build processes from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, while simultaneously building new pipelines and improving the overall CI/CD architecture for enhanced GitOps efficiency. Delivered enhanced observability and reliability by implementing a centralized logging solution using OpenSearch and Fluent Bit, and improving the monitoring stack's reliability through the adoption of Thanos. Built scalable Azure infrastructure by managing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Pulumi and applying robust security measures by improving the security of Kubernetes clusters with Aqua. Automated critical operations by developing Python solutions for managing Kafka topics, streamlining operations, and improving platform resilience. Maintained and secured a VDI infrastructure in Azure for a Citrix VDI solution, demonstrating expertise beyond container platforms. Delivered CI/CD and centralized observability: integrated OpenShift workflows with Jenkins and established a central

Kubernetes Engineer at Nordcloud (IT consultant)

Drove infrastructure resilience by contributing to the Nordcloud Foundation project and applying expertise to enhance client environments (e.g., Lego). Managed large-scale Kubernetes clusters across on-premises and various cloud platforms using Rancher for unified cluster lifecycle management. Advanced GitOps and security automation by implementing centralized logging and secret management with HashiCorp Vault, evaluating leading security tools for cluster hardening. Automated end-to-end infrastructure deployment by creating robust CI pipelines with GitHub Actions and Terraform via Golang to automate EKs clusters, ensuring reliability and scalability. Enhanced operational observability by improving core monitoring processes across client environments and contributing to the growth of infrastructure reliability.

Site Reliability Engineer at TeamViewer

Spearheaded SRE and DevOps culture adoption by initiating and leading seminars to introduce reliability principles to technical teams, actively promoting DevOps and SRE culture across the organization. Drove infrastructure self-service and tooling by developing a virtual machine automation portal using Ansible AWX, granting developers direct access to infrastructure resources and reducing silos and bureaucracy. Built and secured foundational infrastructure by architecting and deploying a highly available on-prem Kubernetes cluster and provisioning cloud infrastructure on Azure, including VPCs and IaS, while implementing secure PKI via Vault. Delivered end-to-end CI/CD and centralized observability: established CI/CD pipelines integrating OpenShift workflows with Jenkins and developed a robust logging environment using Graylog for enhanced monitoring and investigations.