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Hello, I’m Valentin.
DevOps Engineer

I'm focused on Cloud and developer experience automation topics and helping teams make fast progress with AWS, CDK, CircleCI, Serverless, Kubernetes and all kinds of modern delivery tools.

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Who am I?

DevOps Engineer, located in Berlin, with a bias for fast iterations and automation. I enjoy unraveling complex systems and developing tools to fast-track progress.

First and foremost, I am a problem solver; programming is just a concise way of writing down one possible solution.

I prefer working in small, focused teams with aligned goals and clearity on how tasks flow through the team. Recognizing that not every team may initially meet these criteria, I also like morphing tools and processes to help teams approach these high standards.

About Me
Jul 2019 - Sep 2023
Sr. DevOps Engineer
SAP Signavio 🔗
Techlead in the inital stages of a newly established development team. Set up a Serverless stack with Continuous Delivery, utilizing TypeScript for all layers of the Application (Node, Serverless, Lambda, AWS CDK).
Migrated major legacy SaaS platform from hosted VMs to AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD.
Refactored build and release processes, transitioning from Jenkins to CircleCI, Gitlab to Github, and converting plain Java-Spring applications into Docker containers.
Feb 2017 - May 2019
System Engineer
Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business 🔗
AWS infrastructure provisioning & Puppet configuration of enterprise websites running on Adobe Experience Manager. Debugging Linux, networks and administering complex Java applications.
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Software Test Engineer
Avenso GbmH // Whitewall 🔗
Website test automation & quality management

Experience

During ~10 years of experience working for smaller and very large companies I learned to decipher the inner workings teams & systems. Broken code, delivery systems, observability, servers and processes are not scary and can be improved.

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Education

2015
Hasso Plattner Institute
Design Thinking, Basic Track
Innovation Management and project-oriented Teamwork. Design processes, prototyping, customer experience.
2014-2015
İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü
Erasmus, 5 months
Mostly learning turkish, eating great food and attending some fun Scala courses
2009-2013
Universität des Saarlandes
Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
Biology + computer science. Data analysis techniques to collect, organize, and analyze biological data, such as DNA sequences, protein structures, and gene expression profiles