Andreas Putzo
Verified Expert in Engineering
Prometheus Developer
Andreas is an IT expert with 15+ years of experience and a strong OPS background. His excellent code skills, a good understanding of architecture, and the ability to design modern cloud-based IT infrastructure and applications enable him to utilize a variety of tech stacks. He's a quick learner and enjoys problem-solving with teams that have the responsibility to make their own technical decisions and build robust, automated environments.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Terraform, SaltStack, Puppet, Kubernetes, Linux, Azure
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was helping a major fast growing, multi-tenant eCommerce site to fulfill automatic and zero downtime failover exercises.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
KPS digital GmbH
- Developed and improved the Terraform code for the Elkjop project, which ran on Azure AKS.
- Executed performance testing and recommended best practices to development teams.
- Implemented Blue/Green deployment strategies using flagger.
- Built infrastructure using Terragrunt/Terraform and wrote tests using Terratest.
- Build and set up CI/CD Pipelines with TeamCity and Jira.
Principal DevOps and SRE Engineer
ebay Inc.
- Worked DevOps for the fast-growing and high traffic platforms of eBay Kleinanzeigen and mobile.de that run on a multi-region hybrid cloud solution and became the technical lead within the SRE team.
- Migrated the public search from Solr to Elasticsearch.
- Participated in and drove various projects, like regular failover tests, data- and technology migrations, and to further enhance the stability of the platform.
- Took the technical lead in the migration to a private OpenStack cloud.
- Supported the migration from a monolithic architecture to microservices and from MySQL to Kafka as a central data store.
- Created Kubernetes Clusters on OpenStack and supporting infrastructure.
- Developed fault-tolerant monitoring solutions based on ELK Stack, Sensu, Prometheus, and PagerDuty.
Experience
SaaS Solution for Nomad
CockroachDB - An Operator for Kubernetes
Skills
Tools
Terraform, Grafana, Puppet, SaltStack, Varnish, GitLab CI/CD, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Ansible, Solr, Instana, Splunk, TeamCity, Bitbucket
Paradigms
DevOps
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, Sensu, Apache Kafka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Docker, OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Storage
Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, Datadog
Other
Shell Scripting, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Prometheus, AWS DevOps, AWS Cloud Architecture, IT Infrastructure, Nomad
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt
Languages
Go, Ruby, Python
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR)