Nando Theessen-Senior DevOps Engineer
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Senior DevOps Engineer
T-Systems
- Designed, implemented & automated cloud infrastructure contributing to 3 projects in a critical role.
- Lead the teams' effort to implement Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI / CD.
- Enabled customers to follow the GitOps approach and deploy their services via ArgoCD.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Eliagroup
- Designed, implemented & automated cloud infrastructure enabling six dev teams.
- Lead the teams' effort to implement Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI / CD.
- Spearheaded the project's effort in creating an internal developer platform.
Senior Kubernetes Engineer
RackSpace SE
- Brought in to help fix long-standing issues with the existing Kubernetes deployments.
- Provided a root cause analysis and workarounds within two weeks and recommended a long-term solution.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Audi (via Cariad SE)
- Designed and implemented continuous integration pipelines.
- Developed and implemented a testing strategy for Android navigation software using Audi's own testing framework and hardware.
- Automated test & release report generation and distribution.
Senior Solutions Engineer
Opsfleet
- Enabled customers to move their workloads from dedicated EC2 machines towards EKS.
- Consulted on and implemented solutions to scale based on the event-driven architecture already in place.
- Prepared the newly created EKS clusters to work for ML workflows.
- Set up a new monitoring solution including metrics and tracing.
- Configured all services to work with Istio.
Senior DevOps Engineer
MDM Deutsche Münze
- Led the company's move towards container orchestration on the Google Cloud Platform.
- Implemented monitoring best practices using ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, and Stackdriver.
- Enabled developer teams to seamlessly launch new products by consulting throughout the process and engineering simple yet effective CI/CD pipelines.
DevOps Engineer / Engineering Manager
3YOURMIND GmbH
- Led the company's move towards a DevOps mindset.
- Provisioned cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
- Spearheaded Docker-Compose migration towards Kubernetes, reducing costs and simplifying deployments.
- Designed and implemented CI / CD pipelines, shortening release cycles by 90%.
- Reduced the number of releases with CVEs by 65% through automated dependency scans.
Industry experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Automotive.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Operations, Product Development, and Quality Assurance.
Summary
"Nando is, without a doubt, one of the brightest developers that I have seen."
- LinkedIn Recommendation
Nando is a DevOps Engineer who specializes in cloud and container migrations. With his Software Engineering background and leadership skills, he is able to move even the most complicated projects forward.
- Absolute self-starter, able to contribute from day one.
- Excellent communicator, able to connect teams and improve teamwork across the company.
Skills
- Linux
- Bash
- Node.Js
- Amazon Web Services
- Terraform
- Iac / Gitops
- Jenkins
- Golang
- Python
- Docker
- Sql & Nosql Db'S
- Kubernetes
- Python
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Nando is based in Berlin, Germany.
Nando speaks the following languages: English (Advanced), German (Intermediate).
Nando has at least 5 years of experience. During this time, Nando has worked in at least 4 different roles and for 7 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 8 months. Note that Nando may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Nando would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior DevOps Engineer, Senior Kubernetes Engineer, Senior Solutions Engineer.
Nando's most recent position is Senior DevOps Engineer at T-Systems.
In recent years, Nando has worked for T-Systems, Eliagroup, RackSpace SE, and Audi (via Cariad SE).
Nando is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Automotive.
Nando is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Product Development. Nando also has some experience in Quality Assurance.
Nando has 1 certificate: Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
The availability of Nando needs to be confirmed.
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