Developer Experience Engineer - Snyk
Platform primitives and golden paths that help teams ship safely and consistently.
Principles
Systems that stay up, pipelines that stay fast
I build delivery systems that help teams ship faster with confidence - predictable deployments, clean ops, and strong feedback loops.
Platform Engineering at Scale
Standardizing infrastructure through internal developer platforms and service catalogs. Defining paved paths and building advanced deployment layers that make shipping safe and repeatable across hundreds of services.
Automation & Tooling
Automating the software lifecycle through robust CI/CD architecture and infrastructure-as-code. I build custom tooling and CLIs that simplify complex workflows, removing friction and helping teams maintain high velocity without sacrificing stability.
Security & Compliance
Secrets management, hardened baselines, dependency hygiene.
Projects & Writing
Recent work
Platform Operator (intent-based delivery)
Most platform pain starts the same way: every service grows its own deployment config, Helm values, and operational conventions-until upgrades become “change N repos”, and the fleet slowly drifts into inconsistent behavior. I built an abstracted platform configuration layer that lets teams describe what they run (the intent) and automatically get a safe, production-ready baseline (scaling, safeguards, and observability) applied consistently across services. Behind the scenes, it handles multi-step convergence and environment-aware defaults so first deploys and upgrades stay predictable. The outcome is less per-service maintenance, faster onboarding, and platform rollouts that can be staged or pinned with a clear blast radius.
Graylog
Built the enterprise reporting engine: scheduled reports with PDF/CSV exports and templated dashboards in the Graylog open source/enterprise stack.
Collector Sidecar
Lightweight agent to centrally manage and configure log collectors across fleets, reducing per-node drift and simplifying rollout of logging configs.
Experience
Track record
Developer - TORCH / Graylog
Open Source Development, logging & observability products.
Server Automation Engineer - XING
Build pipelines, virtualization, developer sandboxes.
Unix System Engineer - SinnerSchrader
Deployment automation, configuration management, site ops.
Linux System Administrator - ScaleUP IT
Business hosting, web development.
Currently reading
Leadership & influence
Moving from building systems to building teams - exploring how technical leadership extends beyond architecture decisions.
Staff Engineer
Will Larson · Leading through influence and technical vision at senior levels, without formal authority.
Leadership Unblocked
Muriel M. Wilkins · Overcoming internal blockers and self-limiting patterns to unlock greater impact.
Frictionless
Nicole Forsgren & Abi Noda · Building low-friction environments where teams can ship confidently and consistently.
Skills
What I work with
Focused on pragmatic stacks that scale and can be operated sanely.
Go
Python
ArgoCD
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
Helm
Datadog
PostgreSQL
MySQL/MariaDB
AWS / EC2
Education
University of Applied Sciences Bremen
Technical Computer Science - network engineering, client/server, security.