Andreas Putzo, Prometheus Developer in Berlin, Germany
Andreas Putzo

Prometheus Developer in Berlin, Germany

Member since September 29, 2020
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.
Andreas is now available for hire

Portfolio

  • KPS digital GmbH
    DevOps, Grafana, Prometheus, Go, Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Azure...
  • ebay Inc.
    Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DevOps, Varnish, Prometheus, Sensu, Nomad...

Experience

Location

Berlin, Germany

Availability

Full-time

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.

Employment

  • Senior DevOps Engineer

    2021 - PRESENT
    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.
    Technologies: DevOps, Grafana, Prometheus, Go, Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Instana, Splunk, TeamCity, Bitbucket
  • Principal DevOps and SRE Engineer

    2014 - 2019
    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.
    Technologies: Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DevOps, Varnish, Prometheus, Sensu, Nomad, MySQL, OpenStack, Cassandra, Solr, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, SaltStack, Puppet

Experience

  • SaaS Solution for Nomad

    A Ruby on Rails application to allow developers to deploy pre-packaged applications to a Nomad Cluster via WebUI, CLI, or REST interface. This provides a self-service solution for developers to quickly set up software or database backends preconfigured following best practice guidelines.

  • CockroachDB - An Operator for Kubernetes

    A Kubernetes operator to manage Cockroach databases. The development team wanted to deploy on-demand feature environments within their Agile development process. To fit the handling of database instances into this project, I created an operator for Kubernetes to manage those databases and it ran flawlessly from day one.

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)

To view more profiles

Join Toptal
Share it with others