Axel B. - DevOps & Cloud Architect, Project Management

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Cologne, Germany

Experience

Nov 2023 - Feb 2023

-1 years -8 months

Project Lead for Okta Implementation as IAM System

Fritz Schäger GmbH & Co KG

International corporate group for storage and logistics systems
Project lead
Built internal IAM team
Okta
IAM processes

Jun 2023 - Jan 2024

8 months

Project Lead for KHZG Funding Item 2

Kreiskliniken Gummersbach-Waldbröl

Requirements gathering
Technical support
Roll-out preparation (KHZG FTB2)
Project management
Vendor selection & management
Hospital experience
System integrations

Jan 2023 - Present

2 years 8 months

Automation of a Client's Invoicing Process

MedConNET GmbH

Nationwide non-profit service company in the healthcare sector
Developed a cloud tool for automatic invoicing and booking in SAP using Python & AWS
Python
AWS
Retool
Terraform
Ansible
ReportLab
Dagster

Oct 2022 - Present

2 years 11 months

Master of Business Administration Studies

Frankfurt School

Focus on Entrepreneurship

Apr 2022 - Jul 2022

4 months

Germany

Senior Python Developer

GfK GmbH

Cleared a development backlog in an agile team
Rebuilt the microservice architecture for scalable K8s worker processes
Python
FastAPI
Celery
GitLab CI/CD
Kubernetes
Docker
Prometheus
Redis

Mar 2022 - Present

3 years 6 months

Germany

DevOps Support

damedic GmbH

Managed AWS infrastructure
Developed ML CI/CD pipelines (Python, SageMaker)
Trained student workers in DevOps methods (Infrastructure as Code)
Supported software architecture
Kubernetes
Helm
Terraform
AWS (EKS, VPC, EC2, IAM, SQS, SageMaker)
Python

Jul 2021 - Present

4 years 2 months

Freelance IT Consultant

Freiberuflicher IT Dienstleister

IT architecture
DevOps consulting and support
Interface integration
IT process optimization
Project management

Jul 2021 - May 2023

1 year 11 months

Mentor for Application Developer Trainee

Paracelsus Kliniken

Task coordination
Technical guidance
Introduced DevOps
Python
Django
JavaScript
Terraform
Various Azure services

Jul 2021 - Feb 2022

8 months

Design, Selection & Setup of a Healthcare CMS

Paracelsus Kliniken Deutschland GmbH & Co KGaA

Requirements analysis
Project setup for strategic goal “Interoperability Platform”
Built a proof of concept
Drafted requirements specification
Coordinated vendor field
Project management

Oct 2018 - Jun 2021

2 years 9 months

Team Lead IT Architecture

Paracelsus Kliniken Deutschland GmbH & Co KGaA

Project management
Supported digital strategy
Managed partners
Created concepts for the internal IT team
Technical team lead (6 people)
Trained IT specialists (content)
Developed WiFi concept including procurement
Selected HCM system (own initiative)
Process automation, Python/Django
Linux server configuration management
Introduced Okta IAM
Developed HCI data center & VDI concept
Firewall selection
Introduced ClickUp (PM tool)
Gigabit connections for all
Rolled out Office 365
Phone maintenance contracts
Introduced Docker/K8s platforms
Central signature, Python/Django
Azure (Queues, Blob, Compute, AppServices, AKS, Functions)
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Okta
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
Python
Django
ClickUp
GitLab CI
Office 365
PowerShell

Jun 2016 - Aug 2018

2 years 3 months

Germany

Team Lead Operations & Infrastructure

Cognotekt GmbH

Built cloud infrastructure
Led a team (3 FTEs)
Supported developers (knowledge transfer, cloud and DevOps methods)
Set up CI/CD processes
Introduced and managed Kubernetes
Introduced Django as web framework
AWS (S3, EC2, IAM, SQS, ELB, EB, RDS, Route 53, EKS)
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Grafana
Python
Rancher
GitLab CI
Puppet
Foreman
Ubuntu
TeamCity

Nov 2015 - May 2016

7 months

Germany

Freelance Senior DevOps Engineer

Cognotekt GmbH

Designed and built an automated CI/CD pipeline and hosting environment on AWS
Supported internal development processes
AWS (S3, EC2, SQS)
Rancher
Puppet
Python

Mar 2015 - Sep 2015

7 months

Germany

Freelance System Administrator

Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

Automated new data center operations concept using Puppet
Puppet
Bash
OpenStack (Red Hat, VMware)
Python

Jun 2013 - Oct 2014

1 year 5 months

Germany

Freelance System Administrator

DVAG

Reimplemented Puppet configuration management
Designed a more flexible operations concept
Subproject lead “fast deployments”
Puppet
Foreman
VMware ESX
KVM
Git
Heartbeat
DRBD
Java
Tomcat

Jun 2012 - May 2013

1 year

Germany

Freelance System Administrator

Bundesagentur für Arbeit

Automated deployments using Puppet
Migration support & script development for the learning platform
Designed a hosting concept for internal small applications
Puppet
Bash
SSH
Ilias
BMC Remedy
Apache
PHP
WordPress

May 2010 - Dec 2011

1 year 8 months

Germany

Frozen ATPL Pilot License

FlightCrewAcademy

Developed Greasemonkey “Pimp my CAT” to improve usability of the online CBT software “CAT”
Reimplemented DLF training software for Linux & Mac
JavaScript
Greasemonkey
Python
Qt

Jan 2009 - May 2010

1 year 5 months

Germany

Software Trainer in Nuclear Safety

Ferchau Engineering

Designed and delivered training for internal and external clients
Installed, virtualized & maintained training environments
Managed requirements for a new document management software
Developed tools for training management and delivery (CLI, GUI)
Python
TkInter
SSH
XenServer

Dec 2005 - Jan 2008

2 years 2 months

Germany

Java Developer

ICW AG

Developed a library for using ICW products in third-party software
Designed a web service test framework for CI use
Managed internal and external developers
Java
Python
SOAP
Apache Axis
JUnit
XML
Maven
CruiseControl CI/CD

Oct 2003 - Feb 2004

5 months

Australia

Intern

Romteck Pty Ltd.

Ported a C/C++ embedded application from MS-DOS to Linux
Reimplemented graphics and network stack
Developed an embedded development platform
Debian Linux
X11
C
C++
SDL library
DALLAS One Touch Key

Oct 2001 - May 2003

1 year 8 months

Research Assistant for System Administration

Linux system administration
Managed mail, web and Windows services
IT training for department staff
Linux
Samba
Windows
Postfix

Jan 2001 - Dec 2005

5 years

Freelance IT Consultant

Freiberuflicher IT Dienstleister

Network design, setup, IT administration
Basic IT training
Samba
Apache
PHP
Postfix
WordPress

Oct 1997 - Feb 2005

7 years 5 months

Germany

Diploma in Electrical Engineering

TU Darmstadt

Specialization in data technology & networks
Thesis: Stress test of various web service mechanisms under fluctuating connection quality
Term paper: Analysis within the eDonkey network
Python
C
C++
.NET
Java
FreeBSD
Ethereal (Wireshark)
tcpdump