About Me
Hi, my name is Till and I’m a Cloud DevOps Engineer. I have worked at a number of companies and projects gaining teamwork and project planning skills.
I love working with: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, Ansible and Python
Experience
E-Commerce platform for lighting, designed for private and business customers
- Creating and maintaining an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for Magento 2 E-Commerce shops, built on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), using Gitlab, Terraform, Jenkins and Prometheus
- Teaching Developers the usage of state-of-the-art tools like Git, pre-commit, Terraform and Kubernetes
Biggest German stock exchange, provider of several successful financial market products, IT leader in the german financial branch
For the DevOps Engineer part, see below.
Coaching an agile team in self-management and cross-functionality as well as helping the Product Owner with the definition of a Product Vision, Product Goals and measurable Sprint Goals
Scrum.org certifications:
Biggest German stock exchange, provider of several successful financial market products, IT leader in the german financial branch
Architecting and building a PaaS solution on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform built upon Red Hat OpenShift 4 utilizing ArgoCD, OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), Ansible and Terraform in an agile SCRUM project
Projects
I lead the technical evaluation and subsequent decision of the GitOps approach via Argo CD and the underlying technical details
I developed an Ansible wrapper playbook to adjust Openshift „Installer Provisioned Installations“ to the unique Deutsche Börse Cloud environment
Biggest German stock exchange, provider of several successful financial market products, IT leader in the german financial branch
Lifecycle administration of Web applications (Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat) utilizing modern DevOps technologies like Docker and Ansible
Architecting SaaS and PaaS solutions via Terraform on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure
Integrating CI/CD lifecycles via Jenkins, Graylog and Splunk
Projects
I lead the effort to automate the deployment and configuration management for web applications by using Ansible for config rollouts and Jenkins for application deployments
I developed a dynamic Docker Swarm monitoring tool in Python 3 to enable the company internal monitoring solution to properly monitor dynamically changing Docker Swarms
I was a key player in the effort to transform existing web applications for cloud platform (AWS and Microsoft Azure) viability via Terraform and Ansible, thusly save cost by automatically scaling applications horizontally
IT consultancy and project management
Systems Administration of Suse Linux Enterprise Servers and VMware ESX clusters using Perl- and Shell scripts
Planning, Coordination and Realization of high available IT projects
Projects
I was part of a team to plan and establish automated configuration management on >2000 Suse Linux Enterprise servers spanning two datacenters. We used our own created tool written in Perl and Bash and set up our own Failover PostgreSQL method for it to cover the charateristics of the underlying environment.
I took part in effectively reducing the “days to data center” for new server orders by semi-automating the order and ESX installation process
Distributor of medical products and devices
Administration and Planning of a heterogenous IT infrastructure consisting of Linux and Windows Servers
Projects
I implemented a roaming user profile management system for Windows on a OpenSuse Server using OpenLDAP and Kerberos
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
scrum.org certified
Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I)
scrum.org certified
Education
Friedrich Dessauer Schule Limburg
Apprenticeship Fachinformatiker - Systemintegration
Mai 2008 - June 2011
A Little More About Me
Alongside my interests in DevOps and software engineering some of my other interests and hobbies are:
- Gaming
- Biking
- Family activities