Kristof Blümel

Senior Systems Engineer

Wunstorf, Germany

Experience

May 2022 - Present
3 years 1 month
Hybrid

Consultant

Immowelt GmbH / AVIV Group

Consulting and optimization for transforming into cloud-only setup using AWS toolstack

Immowelt is running a hybrid setup of various Windows and Linux servers to provide their estate trade platform to enterprises and endusers all over Europe. To ensure maximum future IT capabilities, the customer wants to leave all local datacenters and systematically cut the two big monolith platforms into microservices running on AWS native tech stack. The complete AWS infrastructure is maintained with Terraform, versioned in Git-repositories and deployed with pipelines via gitlab, Jenkins or circle ci.

Wherever possible, the central Auth0 provider Okta is to be implemented, also in legacy applications.

On their journey to also provide a catching, seamless employee tech-stack, I supported them to develop some of their key decisions integrating MS Azure Intune and Okta. This way the (newly onboarding) users experience a seamless, automated path to get their new workstations up and running just where they want to work.

Nov 2021 - May 2023
1 year 7 months
Hybrid

Consultant

noris Network AG

Optimizing, Testing and Restructuring of a dynamic hybrid cloud solution

noris Enterprise Cloud is based on VMWare Cloud Director, Cloudelligence conducts usability tests focusing on automatic infrastructure deployment via Terraform.

Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
8 months

Developer

Energie Baden-Württemberg

Central Network Security gateway API development based on AWS CDK Automation Pipeline with Python

Using python a CDK template with automated pipeline deployment was implemented to publish an API for fully automated attaching and detaching of transitgateway networks to the customers CheckPoint firewalls. This setup connects on premise networks to individually encapsulated cloud networks. Also a visualization tool for both route records and drift analysis is part of the project.

Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
2 months

Azure Certification

MS-500: Security Administrator

Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
2 months

Technical Consultant

International Mechanical Engineering Company

Technical Exploration and Consulting for enhancing their Customer Portal with Business Intelligence Logic. Exploration Focus on cloud based, hyperscale able services with powerBI, Azure Active Directory and Node.JS

Mar 2021 - Present
4 years 3 months

Consultant

Chemical Supplier

Exploration and Research

Authorization of Azure AD (AAD) B2B Users for powerBI reports For accounting purposes principals of a chemical supplier had to be enabled to access defined powerBI reports with individual credentials via a principal portal. Also the customer needed a suggestion regarding the usage of AAD B2B vs. B2C implementation.

Development Backoffice

  • all kinds of research and exploration tasks
  • pre-testing and research with APIs for different products
  • prototyping of infrastructure elements
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
2 months

Consultant

Online Retailer Business Analytics

Integration of Active Directory with Google Cloud Platform

Enabling Data Scientists of a multi brand online retail company to transparently log into GCP to use Google BI tools with their Active-Directory-Accounts. Therefore, Google Cloud Directory Sync and AWS Single-Sign-on Services as Proxy to an onpremise Active-Directory needed to be configured.

  • Google Directory Sync
  • Google Identity and Access Management
  • AWS Single-Sign-on
Jan 2016 - Feb 2021
4 years 2 months

Chief Technical Officer

eves_ consulting GmbH

  • Chief Technical Officer for all Group Branches
  • Head of Department, 8 System Engineers (6 Months)
  • Technical Presales and Requirement Analysis
  • Various Microsoft 365 Migrations
  • Mail
  • Sharepoint
  • Azure AD
  • Azure Computing
  • Hybrid deployments
  • Various Microsoft Environment Migrations
  • Small Business Server 2008-2011
  • VMWare redundant vCenter + vSphere Environment Design and Implementation for Production, 150 VMs
  • Active Directory
  • Exchange
  • SQL
  • E-Mail Encryption with totemomail ®, public sector
  • 2000 seats
  • Complex infrastructure
  • Various infrastructure implementation projects in middle and enterprise environments, incl. technical presales and project plan
  • RIM Blackberry ® Enterprise Server
  • Excitor DME Infrastructure
  • Giritech G/On remote access

Microsoft 365 Migrations, incl. Azure When Industry Seats 2019 Machine Constructor 130 2018 Local Airport 80 2018 Design Agency 35 2017 Coin shipping company 65 2016 Finance Management (BAFIN listed) 15 2014 eves_ internal Mail 45

Feb 2013 - Mar 2014
1 year 2 months

System Engineer

eves_ information technology AG

Worldwide Support for VW, end-of-line Software Flashing

  • Oracle Database operation
  • JBoss Operation
Feb 2012 - Dec 2016
4 years 11 months

System Engineer

eves_ information technology AG

  • Various infrastructure implementation projects in middle and enterprise environments, incl. technical presales and project plan
  • RIM Blackberry ® Enterprise Server
  • Excitor DME Infrastructure
  • Giritech G/On remote access
  • Various Microsoft Environment Migrations
  • Small Business Server 2008-2011
  • VMWare vSphere Environment Design and Implementation for Production, 30 VMs
  • Active Directory
  • Exchange
  • SQL
Sep 2009 - Jan 2012
2 years 5 months

Apprentice

eves_ information technology AG

"Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration"

  • Customer support
  • Final thesis: Blackberry ® Enterprise Server vs. Excitor DME – an tco analysis
Jan 2005 - Present
19 years 5 months

IT Support and Consultant

bluemels

small-sized business IT Support and consulting.

Summary

Over 15 years of experience in IT in various industries. Kristof provides both infrastructure architecture and project management expertise combined with reliable social skills. His focused view for the essential project-aims leads to successful IT projects. Combining his wide technical knowledge and practical experience of numerous projects, workshops and technical presales meetings, he outlines show-stopers as well as easy-to-go-paths. He likes listening to the customer's needs for finding solutions nearest to perfect. However, he is clear and honest with all parties. Kristof also is experienced in topics of IT management processes like infrastructure requirement engineering, yet well-grounded knowledge relating to service quality management with e.g. ITIL Foundation complements his capability. His slogan: make it simple, then simply make it.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Sep 2009 - Jan 2012

eves_, Brunswick

Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration · Braunschweig, Germany

Oct 2006 - Sep 2009

Technical University Clausthal

Information Systems · Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

Oct 1997 - Jun 2006

Gymnasium Corvinianum

Abitur · Northeim, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Azure Certification MS-500: Security Administrator

ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management