Hey, I’m Chris 👋

I’m a Software Engineer passionate about distributed systems and developer productivity tools. My professional focus centers on observability, reliability, maintainability, and performance. Outside of work, I contribute to open source projects. Check out my GitHub account to see what I’m up to.

At MOIA, I’m part of the Developer Experience Team as the Platform Owner, building scalable systems with AWS and Kubernetes to empower our developer community. Before MOIA, my journey included experience across industry and academia, always focused on impactful, practical technology solutions.

I also co-organize the CNCF Hamburg CloudNative / Kubernetes meetup, a space for sharing knowledge and learning alongside others.

Creativity plays a big role in my life, both at work and in my free time. I spend a lot of my downtime learning digital art and watercolor painting, turning ideas into visuals. Drawing has always been something I love—it’s similar to coding, where imagination meets skill.

Curiosity drives me to experiment with new tools and explore different techniques. The art and stories in videogames are another source of inspiration. Whether through pixels, drawings, or lines of code, I find joy in creating and learning every day.

👨‍💻 Professional Journey

Platform Owner (Developer Experience)

March 2023 - Present | Company: MOIA

Shaping the transformation of MOIA’s developer experience, enhancing productivity and system reliability.
Enhancing cross-functional collaboration by streamlining deployments and fostering best-practices, reducing deployment times and accelerating time-to-market for new features.
Organizing technical workshops and CNCF meetups, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning among developers.

Platform Engineer

May 2021 - March 2023 | Company: MOIA

Support for development teams to foster a “you build it, you run it” mentality and to design, build, and run highly available systems on AWS public cloud and Kubernetes
Development and maintenance of company-wide, cross-team, shared infrastructure components
Design and implementation of services and development tools to automate common internal tasks
Participation in on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues and facilitation of post-mortem analyses

Research Assistant with focus on Cloud and Virtual Infrastructure

Sep 2018 - Jun 2021 | Institution: Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

Operation and development of the university’s large-scale private cloud research infrastructure
Maintenance of SaaS offerings (Gitlab, Jupyterhub, Jitsi, …) on top of Kubernetes for research groups and students
Infrastructure automation with Ansible, Puppet and Terraform to enable on-demand cluster provisioning for resource groups and student projects
Teaching Assistance for university courses in the department of Computer Science
Support in funded research and development projects
Advising and guiding students in projects and theses

Golang Software Engineer Intern

May 2018 - Aug 2018 | Company: Kubermatic GmbH

During my studies I worked for Kubermatic as a Golang Software Enginner Intern.

Contributed to the Kubermatic Container Platform for automating multi-cloud, on-premise and edge operations
Further development of Drone CI/CD pipelines and automation of workflows
Multi-cluster infrastructure monitoring with federated Prometheus + Grafana

IT Department Working Student in Fair Operations

Jan 2015 - Aug 2018 | Company: Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH

🎓 Educational Background

Master of Science (Computer Science) | Sep 2018 - Jun 2021

Master of Science (M. Sc.) in computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. During my Masters I specialized in cloud solutions and virtual infrastructure. I worked on topics like cluster provisioning, (hard-)multitenancy and serverless solutions on Kubernetes. In my master thesis I implemented and evaluated a distributed, reactive autoscaler for hybrid cloud environments (see here).

Thesis: Development and evaluation of a distributed autoscaler for use in hybrid cloud environments

Bachelor of Science (Business Informatics) | Sep 2015 - Aug 2018

Thesis: Test Concepts For Microservice Architectures

Bachelor of Science Degree (B.A. Sc.) in business informatics at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. The bachelor programme combines business administration and computer science. Specialization during my bachelor thesis on testing distributed systems in cloud environments and developing a test concept for a sample microservice architecure.

IT Management Assistant (Apprenticeship, IHK Certification) | Aug 2012 - Jan 2015

Training as an IT Management Assistant (in german called “Informatikkaufmann”) at Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH. Hamburg Messe und Congress is a full-service provider with service in organizing and conducting national and international exhibitions and conferences. My final practical project of apprenticeship training was a cost-benefit analysis of the introduction of an interface solution between two systems in trade fair operation.

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