tech stack and skills

In the following, I would like to give as comprehensive an insight as possible into my tech stack and experience. The skill matrix includes a self-assessment based on experience and know-how in the respective technology.

Legend self-assessment:

★ Theoretical knowledge
★★ First practical experiences
★★★ Good practical experience
★★★★ Deep practical experience

Skillmatrix

Techs: SKE, PostgreSQL, Observability, Computing, Object Storage, Networking
tools/technologiesself-assessmentexperience in yearsexplanation
docker★★★★6
  • Migrating a monolithic environment to containers and Kubernetes starting in 2018.
  • Development of new container-based services.
  • Regular use in CI/CD, k8s and local development
Kubernetes★★★4
  • Development of a tracking solution and operation until 2023 (Matomo, k8s, GKE, GCP, Terraform, Docker, istio, Gitlab CI/CD) for an online community with over 5 million members.
  • Setting up an on-premises Kubernetes solution at F&P as a dev/staging environment (Rancher, k3s, Proxmox, Calico).
  • Migration of services to containers/Kubernetes (AWS, EKS, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD).
  • Development and operation of a scalable Gitlab Runner infrastructure for processing over 200 parallel CI/CD jobs. (AWS, EKS, Cluster Autoscaler, Spot Instances, Gitlab CI/CD, Terraform).
  • Running Hashicorp Vault on the AWS Cloud Platform. Hardened and auditable implementation. (AWS, EKS, Vault)
Kubernetes Techstack: k3s, GKE, EKS, Helm, Terraform, Terragrunt, k9s, Cluster Autoscaler, istio, Traefik, Vault, Cert Manager, Gitlab CI/CD, Docker, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, MetalLB, trivy, fluentbit, AWS CloudWatch, kubectl … (list not complete)
Terraform★★★★4
  • Development of Terraform modules and configurations for AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, Vault, Gitlab CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Proxmox, Rancher, MetalLB, fluentbit, monitoring, logging ... (list not complete)
  • Deploying Kubernetes clusters using Terraform on AWS and GCP.
Terraform Techstack: Terraform, Terragrunt, Tftui, Trivy, tflint
Configuration Management★★★★6
  • Development of salt states for the configuration of servers and services.
  • Development of a local test environment for Salststates using Docker and implementation of CI tests in Gitlab CI
Techs: Saltstack, Ansible
AWS★★★★4
  • Migrating services to containers/Kubernetes for an online community with several million members (AWS, EKS, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD).
  • Development and operation of a scalable Gitlab Runner infrastructure for processing over 200 parallel CI/CD jobs. (AWS, EKS, Cluster Autoscaler, Spot Instances, Gitlab CI/CD, Terraform).
  • Running Hashicorp Vault on the AWS Cloud Platform. Hardened and auditable implementation. (AWS, EKS, Vault)
Techs: EKS, VPC, VPC Endpoints, EC2, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ECS, ECR, IAM, AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO), S3, Cloud Trail, Load Balancing (ALB/NLB), CloudWatch, RDS, KMS
GCP★★★4
  • Development of a tracking solution and operation until 2023 (Matomo, k8s, GKE, GCP, Terraform, Docker, istio, Gitlab CI/CD) for an online community with over 5 million members.
  • Introducing BigQuery and DataStudio to analyze SEO metrics
Techs: GKE, VPC, Compute Engine, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud SQL, Cloud Load Balancing, Big Query, Memorystore, Cloud Storage, Looker Studio (Data Studio), App Engine
Azure★★1
  • Implementation of cloud infrastructures in personal projects using Terraform (Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, AKS, Virtual Network)
Cloudflare★★★4
  • Introduction of Cloudflare DNS, WAF, CDN and configuration using Terraform for an online community with several million members
  • Provision of internal services using Cloudflare ZTNA
  • Developing a Middleware Using Golang, WASM and Cloudflare Workers
STACKIT Cloud★★1
  • Planning and implementation of the cloud migration of several services to the STACKIT Cloud: feasibility analysis, cost comparison and performance benchmarks. Migration of applications (Node.js, Kotlin, PostgreSQL) including adaptation and optimization for the target platform
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