Portfolio

Selected Projects

Cloud migrations, Kubernetes platforms, and DevOps transformations for banks, insurers, car makers, and logistics companies — with the stack behind each one.

  • Tesco Bank — DevOps Consulting

    A six-day workshop covering every stage of the bank's software development lifecycle in depth, ending in a detailed report of concrete improvements.

    • SDLC Assessment
    • DevOps Consulting
    • Workshop Facilitation
  • Credit Suisse — Cloud Migration & High Availability

    One of the world's best-known private banks, active in over 50 countries.

    • Hundreds of bare-metal servers migrated to AWS
    • Multi-AZ highly available network architecture, designed and implemented
    • Automated failover — switch availability zones at the push of a button
    • Automated cross-AZ backup of HBase on EMR data
    • AWS
    • EC2 Bare Metal
    • Nitro
    • Placement Groups
    • ELB
    • HBase
    • S3
    • Ansible
    • Jenkins
  • Allianz — Container Runtime Platform 2.0

    CRP 2.0 is Allianz's global Kubernetes-as-a-Service platform.

    • 100% infrastructure as code with Terraform, Python 3, and Go, on both AWS and Azure
    • Fully automated Jenkins pipelines
    • Highly available secrets management with Vault
    • Open-source templating tool in Go for CI pipelines
    • Open-source SAML authentication proxy in Go for internal services
    • Participated in every architectural decision and contributed 90% of the code
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • Terraform
    • Kubernetes
    • Vault
    • Ansible
    • Python 3
    • Go
    • Jenkins
  • Allianz Direct

    The online car insurance platform of Allianz, the world's largest insurer.

    • AWS and on-premises hybrid cloud across four countries
    • Hub-and-spoke network topology, five environments, 100% infrastructure as code with Terraform
    • 60+ microservices with fully automated CI and 100+ deployments managed by Jenkins, Argo CD, and Helm
    • Container runtime security with Prisma Cloud
    • High-performance logging with Loki and Grafana
    • Open-source Vault-to-Kubernetes secrets synchronization tool
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • On-Premises
    • Terraform
    • Vault
    • OpenShift
    • Kubernetes
    • Go
    • Argo CD
    • Helm
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • Loki
  • SEI Robotics — Cloud/Kubernetes Migration

    A smart-home hardware company and global leader in Android TV and IoT devices.

    • Multi-cloud (AWS + Alibaba Cloud) architecture and high-availability implementation, 100% infrastructure as code
    • Migration of MQTT-based microservices to Kubernetes
    • Internal training on DevOps, Kubernetes, cloud, and IaC
    • AWS
    • Alibaba Cloud
    • Kubernetes
    • MQTT
  • Daimler — EQ Ready

    A mobile app backed by a cloud AI/ML recommendation engine that suggests the most suitable car for each user based on behavior, driving style, and habits.

    • Cloud-native on Microsoft Azure, 100% infrastructure as code with Terraform, highly available
    • Built from the ground up following the twelve-factor app methodology
    • Microservices in Go and Python 3, all running on Kubernetes
    • CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple builds and deploys per day
    • Azure
    • Terraform
    • Kubernetes
    • Go
    • Python
    • Jenkins
  • Daimler — Car and Customer Platform

    CCP is Daimler's next-generation, fully automated datacenter and public cloud platform.

    • Bare metal as a service with MaaS
    • Software-defined networking on white-box switches with Cumulus Linux
    • Fully automated configuration of every server and switch with Ansible
    • Multi-tenant Kubernetes on bare metal, 100% automated
    • Ceph clusters on Kubernetes as the storage layer
    • Centralized logging and monitoring with ELK and Prometheus/Grafana
    • Bare Metal
    • MaaS
    • Kubernetes
    • Ansible
    • Cumulus
    • Ceph
    • ELK
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • GoCD
  • Mercedes-AMG — Machine Learning on Bare Metal

    Two AI/ML modules — one for emissions, one for debugging and tuning — running on Kubernetes on bare metal.

    • Bare metal as a service
    • Automated Kubernetes cluster configuration on bare metal with Ansible
    • Machine-learning build and deploy pipelines in Kubernetes
    • Bare Metal
    • MaaS
    • Kubernetes
    • Ansible
    • Jenkins
  • Lanxess — CheMondis

    CheMondis is the online chemicals marketplace of Lanxess, a specialty chemicals company spun out of Bayer AG.

    • Cloud-native on Microsoft Azure, 100% infrastructure as code with Terraform, highly available
    • Built from the ground up following the twelve-factor app methodology
    • Python 3 and Django, everything built from scratch
    • Azure
    • Terraform
    • Python 3
    • Django
    • PostgreSQL
    • Jenkins
  • MyJar

    An Estonian B2C consumer lending startup, later acquired by a British company.

    • Monolith-to-microservices refactor
    • On-premises to AWS migration, 100% infrastructure as code
    • Configuration management with Ansible, with minimum redundancy and maximum reuse
    • On-Premises
    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • Ansible
    • Packer
    • Jenkins
  • Kuehne+Nagel — EDI

    An Electronic Data Interchange project connecting dozens of critical services for the largest global freight forwarding and supply chain management corporation.

    • Automated configuration management with Ansible for bare-metal servers and VMs
    • Test-driven configuration code with Docker, Test Kitchen, and serverspec
    • Built a monitoring system with React and Redux
    • Set up CI/CD from scratch with Jenkins and coached three teams in different countries on agile practice
    • On-Premises
    • Ansible
    • Test Kitchen
    • serverspec
    • Jenkins
    • Python 3
    • Korn Shell
    • React
    • Redux