Lasse B.-Platform Engineering Expert with 20 Years of Impactful Solutions for Your Business
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Experience
Infrastructure Engineer
YC Infra AI Startup
Built and operated the entire infrastructure and observability platform for an AI agent evaluation platform on AWS/Kubernetes. Led the evolution of an AI-first cloud-native platform by building end-to-end observability, automating infrastructure and CI/CD, improving reliability and scalability, optimizing performance through data-driven engineering, and operating in an AI-native development workflow centered on rapid iteration, code review, and automation. Tech stack included Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Grafana, Github Actions, Python, and Cursor.
Senior Cloud Architect
GEMA
Designed and implemented a centralized observability platform for a large-scale cloud-native environment on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Defined the observability architecture and standards for metrics, logs and distributed tracing based on OpenTelemetry, with Grafana as the central visualization and engineering interface. Built reusable Grafana dashboards and integrations across GKE/CloudRun workloads, Google Cloud native telemetry backends and third-party systems. Implemented a Kubernetes-native metrics stack combining OpenTelemetry with Prometheus-based instrumentation and discovery patterns, including Prometheus metric endpoints and CRD-based service monitoring. Worked closely with platform, application and service-mesh teams to drive adoption of observability as a continuous engineering practice.
Tools & Technologies: Grafana, OpenTelemetry (OTel/OTLP), Prometheus, Google Cloud Monitoring, Managed Service for Prometheus, GKE, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jaeger, Blackbox Exporter, Kiali, Google Cloud Trace.
Senior Cloud Architect
Deccoob GmbH
MVP launch support for a startup using a microservice architecture on GCP. Joined to prepare and execute the production go-live: set up GCP Traffic Director (Istio service mesh), built and maintained 9 Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments, introduced a new staging environment. Tech stack included Terraform, Istio, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Bitbucket CI/CD, Python, and C#/.NET.
Cloud Architect
IT4IPM GmbH
Migration of legacy business applications from on-premises to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). End-to-end responsibility for delivery, including planning, execution, and cutover. Migration involved refactoring existing Ansible automation, provisioning GCP infrastructure via Terraform, and enabling modern service architecture components. Key technologies included Shared GitHub Actions, VMs, Ansible, Terraform, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Elasticsearch, Jenkins and JBoss.
Technical Interviewer
Blacklane GmbH
Goal:
Hire Staff and Senior SRE Engineers.
Responsibilities:
Design and Conduct the 'technical deep dive' interviews and provide scorecards to the hiring team.
Lead approx. 25 Interviews.
Platform Engineer
RWE
Goal:
Support 25 Software Development teams with their infrastructure needs by providing all kind of necessary tools and services for a fast, easy, compliant and secure development experience when it comes to cloud infrastructure.
Build/extended Azure DevOps CI/CD, Terraform modules, AWS landingzone development.
Cloud Architect
Siemens Energy
Goal:
Reduce operational overhead and create a future proof architecture for an audit relevant finance application.
Task:
Migration from classic virtual machines, to a containerized setup on AWS ECS. The project included the planning of the network connectivity to the intranet from a newly created AWS environment, containerization of the application, IaC for all resources, the implementation of a CI/CD pipeline and the setup of a monitoring solution AWS native services.
Technical Project Manager
Siemens Energy
Among others: One project was to migrate a critical finance application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enhancing audit compliance, scalability, and reliability. It introduced Infrastructure as Code (IAC) for streamlined management, established an automated CI/CD pipeline for efficiency, prepared the application for future containerization, and implemented comprehensive monitoring for the application and third-party services, ensuring high availability and quick issue resolution.
AWS Consultant
Weltbild GmbH
Successfully developed and implemented a multi-account strategy for AWS, optimizing resource utilization and security across various services. Established an AWS Account Factory framework for the D2C Group, ensuring high standardization while maintaining flexibility for custom solutions. Conducted comprehensive training sessions for the engineering team, transitioning from traditional VMs to ECS-based services with ephemeral containers and auto-scaling, enhancing efficiency and scalability.
SRE Manager
Cobrainer GmbH
Implemented the technical foundation of Cobrainer's SaaS multi-tenant AI product on AWS, managing the platform and team to deliver a solid and scalable foundation for future growth. They focused on maximizing customer and business value, creating a platform and team that delivered real impact and efficiency.
Platform Engineering Manager
Flink SE
Led Flink's platform engineering efforts on GCP, implementing secure and compliant policies, while providing technical enablement and observability using Terraform, GCP Config Connector, Datadog, and open telemetry
DevOps Engineer
Wifi@DB (deutsche Bahn AG)
Implemented Kubernetes container guidelines including network policies, deployment standards, and security contexts.
Cloud Engineer
Mote Technology Inc.
Successfully migrated EC2-based monolithic application to horizontally scalable containerized setup using AWS ECS
Platform Engineer
Sennder GmbH
Creating scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure through AWS Multi-Account Strategy, Kubernetes migration, and advanced Terraform modules. Innovating microservice architecture using AWS ECS and Kafka, as the facilitator of the Platform Engineering User Group, I foster innovation and promote knowledge transfer within this internal forum.
Director Engineering Platform
Joyn GmbH
Led staffing and management of SRE, Security Operations, and Service Management teams, ensuring high efficiency and communication across 24 cross-functional teams. Successfully launched product in June 2019 with high quality and engineering team autonomy
Engineering Manager Platform and Architecture
ProsiebenSat1 Media SE / ProsiebenSat1 Digital GmbH
Leading a team of 8 SRE Engineers and as a chairman of architecture board driving overall architecture with personnel and budget responsibility, ensuring reliability, stability, and cost-efficiency for digital products including maxdome.de and prosieben.de
Head of SRE
ProsiebenSat1 Media SE / ProsiebenSat1 Digital GmbH
Achieved successful migration from one managed hosting provider to a hybrid model utilizing AWS and on-prem cluster with GlusterFS and oVirt.
Senior DevOps Engineer
ProsiebenSat1 Media SE / ProsiebenSat1 Digital GmbH
Worked on TV portals and cloud-native transformation.
DevOps Engineer
1und1 Internet SE / 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH
Worked on Mail and Media portals like [link] web.de and mail.com.
Head of Operations and Support
SpaceNet AG
Managed people development, technology evangelism, know-how carrier and know-how spreading.
Second Level Support and Operations
SpaceNet AG
Worked on B2B Support. Project: Workflow automation for virtual hosting product.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Energy, Retail, Transportation, and Tourism.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Customer Service, Operations, Product Development, Project Management, and Human Resources.
Summary
Cloud & Platform Engineering Expert with 20+ years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes. Proven track record in enabling developer velocity, cloud migrations, and DevOps leadership across fast-paced environments.
Skills
Cloud And Devops · Expert
- Aws
- Gcp
- Kubernetes
- Cloud-Native
- Terraform
- Github Actions
- Gitlab (Ci/Cd)
Open-Source Software · Expert
- Linux
- Shell
- Mysql
- Postgresql
- Istio
- Podman
- Kafka
Observability · Expert
- Datadog
- Dynatrace
- Jaeger
- Grafana
- Loki
- Prometheus
- Otel
- Sentry
Management · Expert
- People Development
- Hiring (Talent Acquisition)
- Agile Methodologies
Programming Languages · Proficient
- Python
- Golang
Ai Engineering · Proficient
- Ai-Assisted Software Engineering
- Agentic Workflows
- Mcp Development
- Multi-Agent Orchestration
Languages
Education
Professional Schools at Bergsonstraße
School-leaving qualification · Systems Integration · Moorenweis, Germany
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Lasse speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).
Lasse has at least 20 years of experience. During this time, Lasse has worked in at least 17 different roles and for 17 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year. Note that Lasse may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Lasse would be well-suited for roles such as: Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Cloud Architect, Cloud Architect.
Lasse's most recent position is Infrastructure Engineer at YC Infra AI Startup.
In recent years, Lasse has worked for YC Infra AI Startup, GEMA, Deccoob GmbH, IT4IPM GmbH, and Blacklane GmbH.
Lasse is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, and Energy. Lasse also has some experience in Retail, Transportation, and Tourism.
Lasse is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Customer Service, and Operations. Lasse also has some experience in Product Development, Project Management, and Human Resources.
Lasse has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Energy, and Retail.
Lasse has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Human Resources.
Lasse attended Professional Schools at Bergsonstraße for Systems Integration.
Lasse is immediately available for suitable projects.
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