Alertmanager Experts in Germany

• Built and further developed an AWS landing zone based on Terraform / OpenTofu (multi-account structure, IAM baselines, network and security standards)
• Designed and operated platform-oriented AWS architectures to standardize infrastructure and operations processes
• Built and operated Kubernetes-based platforms (EKS) as a shared runtime environment for application teams
• Established GitOps-based deployments with Argo CD and FluxCD
• Developed and operated central CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Enabled development and project teams through reusable platform building blocks
• Introduced and implemented FinOps structures (AWS Cost Explorer, CUR + Athena, Infracost, Grafana dashboards)
• Built and operated central observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, CloudWatch)

• Creation, maintenance and hardening of Kubernetes clusters employing Ansible and ArgoCD
• Keywords: Ansible, AWX, Kubernetes, NetApp, Prometheus, CI/CD ArgoCD, SSO, Fluent-bit, HAProxy, Calico, Keycloak, oauth2-proxy, SealedSecrets, kubeseal, Aqua kube-bench, CIS-Benchmarks, Aqua Trivy operator

• Complete greenfield rebuild across the whole stack — built AI-native: backend in Go and NestJS, PostgreSQL (CNPG) on K3s with GitOps/Terraform; frontend on Angular 22, zoneless.
• Orchestrated coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) across the entire lifecycle — architecture, implementation, testing, reviews, documentation — driven by Specification-Driven Development (SDD).
• “Bruno” — LLM commentator persona backed by RAG and MCP for a personality that stays consistent across all generations (match previews, post-match reports, his own virtual bets).

Angular 22 (zoneless, without Zone.js), Claude Code, Claude Code Skills, CNPG, Cursor, Design Tokens (Spec for Code), Docker, Gherkin, Git, GitLab, GitOps, Go, Google Gemini, Grafana, Hetzner Cloud, K3s, Keycloak, Kubernetes, Lighthouse, LLM Integration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), NestJS, Node.js, NPM, Playwright, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, RAG, REST, Specification-Driven Development (SDD), Structured Outputs, Terraform, TypeScript, Vitest

• Understand the customer’s business & technical requirements and translate them into system / technical requirements
• Design and implement Schrodinger’s applications on cloud systems, and experience convincing senior management and senior technical staff of the benefits of their journey with Schrodinger on the cloud
• Provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership, especially around AWS, GCP, and K8s architecture reviews, performance, high availability, cost, and security
• Deep understanding of the Well-Architected pillars and all best practices for building a secure, performant Schrodinger’s applications on the cloud platforms
• Lead technical workshops and advise customers on architectural and strategic IT decisions
• Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the cloud platforms
• Educate customers on best practices to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Work with other team members to ensure quality and customer success
• Define the tickets, tasks, and timelines of projects
• Collaborate with account managers to ensure that the projects are executed according to the defined plan and timeline
• Monitor the progress of the projects, identify risks and issues, and take proactive measures to mitigate them
• Lead and inspire cloud architect teams, provide guidance, and make critical decisions
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among team members
• Collaborate with Schrodinger’s managers to improve deployment, support, and configuration of Schrodinger’s applications
• Lead weekly standups and define priorities

• Designed and implemented a Python-based ETL pipeline with the Dagster framework to transform raw energy data from heterogeneous sources using InfluxDB and visualizations in Grafana
• Defined time-based and dependency-based jobs
• Deployed to managed Kubernetes clusters using Helm
• Integrated InfluxDB Cloud
• Prepared data for use in Grafana, including cleaning, normalization, and time-based resampling in Python
• Developed dashboards and visualizations in Grafana
• Developed unit tests with mocking using pytest
• Set up a CI/CD pipeline in GitLab

Technologies: Python, Dagster, InfluxDB, Grafana, pandas, pytest, REST, CI/CD, GitLab, Container, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Cloud

• Bootstrapping a CloudOps team and building a multi-cloud provider backend for a low-code Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with env zero

• Introducing user story mapping, ADRs, milestones, and backlog management

• Designing and developing core APIs, setting up CI/CD pipelines, OpenTofu/Terraform scripts

• Representing and communicating the team with third-party stakeholders (e.g. env zero)

• (Cross-)team coaching on DevOps, software design, Terraform, Golang, and agile practices

• Designed and provisioned full AWS infrastructure using Terraform, implementing containerized solutions with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes for scalability and reliability.
• Built multi-environment CI/CD pipelines (Prod, Staging, Test) using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Maven for automated builds, tests, and deployments.
• Configured secure networking with VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways, and routing for high availability.
• Integrated Prometheus, Alert Manager, and Grafana for real-time monitoring and proactive incident response.
• Orchestrated deployment of microservices with Helm, ensuring zero-downtime releases and fast rollback capabilities.
• Mentored junior DevOps engineers on best practices in IaC, Terraform, AWS security, and container management.

• Architected and implemented an enterprise-grade AI Agent Platform leveraging Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to enhance clinical data insights.
• Established robust CI/CD pipelines for LLM applications using CDK and Jenkins, significantly reducing deployment times.
• Implemented comprehensive observability solutions that increased agent reliability across pharmaceutical environments.
• Designed scalable AI workflows with advanced orchestration that optimized context handling for enterprise data sources.
• Technologies: AI Agents (LangChain, LangGraph, Bedrock, Smolagents, Streamlit); LLM Operations (Tracing, Testing, Evaluation, LangSmith, LangFuse); Infrastructure-As-Code (AWS CDK, Terraform, Typescript, Jenkins); Vectors, Embeddings, RAG (OpenSearch, pgvector, PDF Extraction)

• Tribe Home, Product Area 4 - Customer in Life, Squad Cybertron.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of new requirements for Optimmo, mortgage financing software.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of the JEE application MWS kredit-baufi.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of the Wicket Optimmo application.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of kredit-baufi batch programs.
• Migration of kredit-baufi batches to RHEL9.
• CiL SCS consumer pacts with Finagle.
• CiL SCS touch point architecture integration.
• Team size: 10.
• Tools / Frameworks: OpenJDK Java 17, Kotlin 1.6.0, Azure, Jenkins, Stash, JEE, GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, git, Spring 6.0, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Hibernate, JPA, JMS, Kafka, Oracle, PL/SQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Maven, REST, JBoss, IntelliJ IDEA, Wicket 9 and 10, Istio.

• Data transformations
• IT company with more than 100 employees
• Software production
• Data augmentation and normalization, image transformation, format conversion, merging data from multiple sources
• Toolset: Java, Helm, Kubernetes, Kafka, OpenCV, IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle, Git, Docker, Containers, Scrum