Nando Theessen
DevOps Expert
Experience
Dec 2022 - Aug 2023
9 monthsSenior 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 monthsSenior 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.
- Absolute self-starter, able to contribute from day one
- Excellent communicator, able to connect teams and improve teamwork across the company
Languages
English
Native
German
Intermediate
Education
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
Lambda School
Computer Science · Computer Science |Software Engineering
Certifications & licenses
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
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