About Me

I'm a Site Reliability Engineer at SAP, passionate about cloud infrastructure and automation. With a background in system integration and a love for open source, I bridge the gap between development and operations while embracing agile methodologies. Since I joined the team we are taking on the challenge of improving the quality and stability of the whole product with a measurable and structured approach.

What I Do

At SAP, I focus on Infrastructure as Data using Crossplane and act as the Product Owner in our Scrum model. I manage cloud-native observability with Grafana, Dynatrace, Elastic and help operate Cloud Foundry instances on BTP. I'm also an Early Talent Ambassador, helping to enable young talent through events and knowledge sessions.

Tech Stack

My toolkit includes Go for cloud-native development, Kubernetes and its plethora of templating tools like Helm, Kustomize and KRO for orchestration, and various observability tools. I'm experienced with both cloud platforms like Azure or SAP BTP as well as traditional Linux server landscapes. My development environment revolves around macOS with tools like VSCode, IntelliJ, tmux, iterm2 and docker for enhanced productivity. In the age of AI, I also use Claude Code for efficiency and help to develop our team's AI agents.

Homelab

I run my own Kubernetes homelab using k3s, complete with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD - it's actually hosting this website! The storage layer is built on Longhorn for replicated NVMe volumes and ZFS-backed NFS for shared workloads, giving me hands-on experience with real storage architecture decisions. Bare-metal networking is handled by MetalLB and Caddy as a reverse proxy with automatic TLS. One of the more interesting nodes is powered by an AMD Vega Frontier, which I use for GPU-accelerated LLM workloads via Ollama. This lets me run and experiment with large language models entirely on bare metal. I also build and maintain my own open source tools: hetzner-ddns, a Kubernetes-native DDNS controller for Hetzner Cloud DNS written in Go, and banto, a privacy-first zero-backend kanban board — both running in the homelab. This hands-on approach helps me stay current with cloud-native technologies.

Beyond Code

When I'm not automating infrastructure, you'll find me at the local indoor bouldering gym, on the local tennis court or designing 3D-printable objects in Fusion360.

How I Think

I believe in continuous learning through curiosity and sharing my knowledge. My journey from system integration and DevOps to Site Reliability Engineering has taught me that the best systems are built through collaboration and creativity.