Nando Theessen - Senior DevOps Engineer

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Dec 2022 - Aug 2023

9 months

Germany

Senior DevOps Engineer

T-Systems

Designed, implemented & automated cloud infrastructure contributing to 3 projects in a critical role.
Lead the teams' effort to implement Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI / CD.
Enabled customers to follow the GitOps approach and deploy their services via ArgoCD.

Mar 2022 - Jun 2023

1 year 4 months

Berlin, Germany

Senior DevOps Engineer

Eliagroup

Designed, implemented & automated cloud infrastructure enabling six dev teams.
Lead the teams' effort to implement Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI / CD.
Spearheaded the project's effort in creating an internal developer platform.

Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

4 months

Germany

Senior Kubernetes Engineer

RackSpace SE

As the Senior Kubernetes Engineer, I was brought in to help fix long-standing issues with the existing Kubernetes deployments.
Within two weeks, I could provide a root cause analysis and workarounds and recommend a long-term solution.

May 2021 - Nov 2021

7 months

Germany

Senior DevOps Engineer

Audi (via Cariad SE)

Designed and implemented continuous integration pipelines
Developed and implemented a testing strategy for android navigation software using Audi's own testing framework and hardware
Automated test & release report generation and distribution

May 2020 - Apr 2021

1 year

Israel

Senior Solutions Engineer

Opsfleet

Enabling customers to move their workloads from dedicated EC2 machines towards EKS.
Consulting on and implementing solutions to scale based on the event-driven architecture already in place.
Preparing the newly created EKS clusters to work for ML workflows.
Setup for a new monitoring solution including metrics and tracing.
Configuration of all services to work with Istio.

Apr 2020 - Apr 2021

1 year 1 month

Braunschweig, Germany

Senior DevOps Engineer

MDM Deutsche Münze

Leading the companies move towards container orchestration on the Google Cloud Platform.
Implementing monitoring best practices using ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, and Stackdriver.
Enabling developer teams to seamlessly launch new products due to consulting throughout the process and the engineering of simple yet effective CI/CD pipelines.

Feb 2019 - Apr 2020

1 year 3 months

Berlin, Germany

DevOps Engineer / Engineering Manager

3YOURMIND GmbH

Leading role in the company's move towards a DevOps mindset.
Provisioning of cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
Spearheading Docker-Compose migration towards Kubernetes, reducing costs, and simplifying deployments.
Design and Implementation of CI / CD pipelines shortening release cycles by 90%.
Reduced the number of releases with CVEs by 65% through automated dependency scans.

Summary

Nando is a DevOps Engineer who specializes in cloud and container migrations. With his Software Engineering background and leadership skills, he is able to move even the most complicated projects forward.