Hey, I’m Chris 👋

I am a Software engineer with a heart for distributed systems and improving developer productivity tools. My professional mantra revolves around the core pillars of observability, reliability, maintainability, and performance. Besides my day job, I love working on open source software. Dive into my GitHub account to see what I’m up to.

At MOIA, I work in the Developer Experience Team as the Platform Owner, crafting scalable systems with AWS and Kubernetes to support our vibrant developer community. Before MOIA, my journey included a blend of industry and academia, always with a focus on practical, impactful technology solutions.

I’m also deeply involved in the tech community, co-organising the CNCF Hamburg CloudNative / Kubernetes meetup. It’s a space for sharing, learning, and growing together with fellow tech enthusiasts.

Curious to know more about my adventures in tech and beyond? You’re in the right place.

📚🕹️ Off The Clock

Away from work, I keep busy with hobbies that let me learn and create. Coding is still part of my free time. I enjoy picking up new programming languages and tools, just for fun 🔍.

I also spend time drawing, especially with watercolors. It’s a way for me to bring my ideas to life on paper. Board games are another favorite activity. I have a great group of friends, and together we dive into Pen & Paper adventures.

I do play videogames as well! For me they go beyond playing; they’re about the art and stories behind them. I’ve built a collection of artbooks from photographers, painters, and game designers, each showcasing the creativity behind the scenes.

This is me, beyond the bits and bytes, finding joy and inspiration in the simple and the sublime.

👨‍💻 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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