Christian Strobel, Developer in Berlin, Germany
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Christian Strobel

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Prometheus Developer

Berlin, Germany

Toptal member since February 8, 2019

Expertise
GitDockerAnsibleKubernetesJBossTerraformAgile DevelopmentJiraGrafana
Bio

Christian is a communicative, driven DevOps engineer with a strong skillset who believes that supporting projects holistically—with all participants in mind—is the best way to continuously improve the whole software development lifecycle. He firmly believes in the Agile manifesto of "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" and incorporates that in every project he undertakes.

Portfolio

Idealo.de
ELK (Elastic Stack), Grafana, Prometheus, Git, Bash, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker...
Uni-ASSIST.de
PostgreSQL, Apache Maven, Git, Confluence, Jira, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm...
Experience One (formerly Nolte und Lauth GmbH)
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Confluence, Jira, Apache Tomcat, Go, Java...

Experience

  • Apache Maven - 6 years
  • Docker - 4 years
  • Ansible - 3 years
  • Kubernetes - 3 years
  • Prometheus - 3 years
  • WildFly - 3 years
  • Red Hat OpenShift - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

CreativeJS

The most amazing...

...thing I've done was to build a fully automated cluster with Docker Swarm, load balancers, logging, & monitoring—enabling devs to spawn/destroy environments.

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

2019 - PRESENT
Idealo.de
  • Consulted about the best practices regarding cloud platforms, fast delivery, redundancy, logging, and monitoring.
  • Empowered teams to migrate to, use, and leverage the technology.
Technologies: ELK (Elastic Stack), Grafana, Prometheus, Git, Bash, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift

DevOps Engineer

2018 - 2019
Uni-ASSIST.de
  • Consulted for an Agile project to adopt and implement the DevOps mindset, culture, and tools.
  • Migrated from on-premise to container and from monolith to services.
  • Implemented logging, monitoring, and Jenkins CI/CD.
  • Taught communication and fostered team soft skills.
Technologies: PostgreSQL, Apache Maven, Git, Confluence, Jira, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, WildFly, JBoss, Prometheus, Graylog, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker

DevOps Engineer

2017 - 2018
Experience One (formerly Nolte und Lauth GmbH)
  • Consulted and supported multiple Agile projects to implement the DevOps mindset.
  • Re-engineered an online store to reduce tech debt, increase performance, and maintainability.
  • Oversaw operations.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Confluence, Jira, Apache Tomcat, Go, Java, ELK (Elastic Stack), Graylog, Grafana, Prometheus, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, Docker, OpenShift

IT Consultant

2016 - 2017
Lufthansa Industry Solutions
  • Delivered a big data project.
  • Implemented the logging and monitoring of Hadoop, databases, OpenShift, and the infrastructure in general.
  • Installed CI/CD pipelines and created proof of concepts.
  • Led the development of a mathematical optimization Java project; including the requirements, concept, implementation, presentation and delivery.
Technologies: Git, Apache Maven, Confluence, Jira, Prometheus, ELK (Elastic Stack), Apache Kafka, Jenkins, OpenShift, Ansible, Docker, Java

Experience

Fully Automated Cluster

On this project, I developed a fully automatic cluster with Docker Swarm, load balancers, logging, and monitoring which enabled developers to spawn and destroy environments via branches and Jenkins jobs.

Education

2015 - 2016

Master's Degree in Informatics

Hof University of Applied Sciences - Hof, Germany

2011 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Business Informatics

Hof University of Applied Sciences - Hof, Germany

Skills

Libraries/APIs

CreativeJS

Tools

Apache Maven, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Ansible, Git, Terraform, WildFly, Graylog, Grafana, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS CLI, Apache Tomcat, ELK (Elastic Stack), Jira, Confluence, CircleCI, Jenkins

Languages

Bash Script, Java 8, Java, Go, Bash, TypeScript

Platforms

Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, JBoss EAP, OpenShift, Amazon Web Services (AWS), JBoss, Apache Kafka

Paradigms

Agile Software Development

Storage

PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

Frameworks

Spring Boot, Spark, JUnit

Other

Prometheus, Akamai

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