Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Driven by my entrepreneurial journey, I am passionate about ***taking ownership of processes*** and addressing challenges that arise in cross-functional teamwork. I excel at ***leading projects, streamlining workflows, and resolving complex issues without needing formal authority***. I proactively identify inefficiencies, propose impactful solutions, and engage stakeholders to drive continuous improvement. Underpinning this proactive approach, ***I conduct thorough research and interview stakeholders to ensure changes are both impactful and aligned with broader goals***. I am always happy to help people who are open to work or looking for a new challenge.
Lead on-prem and cloud DevOps delivery on GCP: architecting Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with Terraform; Kubernetes with Helm and GitOps; observability with Prometheus, Grafana and ELK; Managing Kafka and Elasticsearch clusters; automating ES backups and SRE workflows to accelerate releases • Engineered CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Terraform and Ansible to automate on-prem installs (10 days → 1 day) and cloud rollouts (1 hour), driving a 98% acceleration in release velocity • Authored Infrastructure as Code playbooks for RKE2 cluster upgrades and NVIDIA-GPU operator deployments, cutting air-gapped workflows by up to 96% and Internet-connected workflows by 88% • Orchestrated containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters across GCP - managing Helm charts, securing network policies and provisioning VMs, NAT IPs, buckets and registries • Built self-service GitOps tooling for air-gapped environments, slashing developer setup time by roughly 90% and eliminating version drift • Designed bidirectional, SLA-driven escalation flows between Salesforce and Jira and built two custom Jira workflows to automate issue tracking and escalations • Maintained and troubleshooted Kubernetes-deployed ETL pipelines with NiFi and Airflow, and automated daily Elasticsearch snapshots via Kinana to cloud and on-premise buckets - ensuring reliable data flow and resilience • Standardized SRE best practices - creating runbooks, on-call guides, CMDB entries and upgrade processes - to reduce maintenance effort and prevent repeat incidents • Spearheaded cost-optimization by rightsizing cloud resources, cutting infrastructure spend by 9% while upholding 99.9% uptime • Mentored engineers through hands-on workshops and documentation overhauls, achieving first-project delivery in three weeks for new hires • Utilized observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana and the ELK stack to enhance monitoring, alerting and reduce MTTR across production environments
Led reliability and scalability improvements for Kubernetes workloads on AWS (EKS), implementing multi-AZ high availability and autoscaling. Improved Jenkins CI/CD automation (Bash/Python), and owned observability with Prometheus/Grafana, driving RCAs to reduce incidents and improve uptime
Online games website I created using WordPress
- I created a private-label shop on Amazon, selling in 4 different marketplaces. - I created my own brand, designed its logo, and trademarked it in the US. - I learned how to streamline the process of a new product from A to Z. - - Data-driven research for new products using SaaS solutions (i.e., Jungle Scout, Helium 10...). - - Analyzing customer feedback for determining the USP. - - 'Shopping around'; Approaching suppliers, comparing, negotiating, and signing a purchase agreement. - - Creating eye-catching premium packaging while keeping it compact to reduce shipping costs. - - Manufacturing and quality control (Inspections, Audits & Lab Testing): Creating a super-detailed specifications file that won't leave any room for error. - - Shipping (aka freight forwarding): Securing a shipment (i.e., EXW, FOB), typically China->US. - - Managing outsourced service providers for copy and product images. - - Running and optimizing PPC (ads) campaigns.
Founder and creator of the app TLfree