Blockchain Application Manager: Swisscom · Contract
May 2019 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos
Design, develop, and implement essential system and application architecture components that facilitate the creation, transfer, and storage of digital assets.
Develop products using various well-established blockchain protocols (BTC, BCH, ETH, XRP, and more).
Ensure the scalability, reliability, and fault-tolerance of production applications for Digital Asset Banking Operations.
Contribute to Incident Management strategies and offer hands-on solutions for banking business incidents.
Support, construct, and maintain containerized microservices on the Openshift Platform, powered by Swisscom's enterprise cloud.
Analyze and enhance the Kafka Topic Browser for necessary corrections and improvements in the existing crypto flow.
Plan and execute releases for the crypto segment to integrate with the banking system.
Analyze and rectify business cases, especially in instances of deviations from the standard Blockchain Flow concerning the storage of digital assets within the blockchain network.
Current technologies & tools (among others): Kubernetes, Openshift Enterprise Cloud, Splunk, Check_MK Enterprise, Prometheus, Kafka, Hardware Security Module, Microservices, Docker, SPA, WAF, ESC F5, MobileID, Airlock, HashiCorp Vault, Nginx, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Git, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Jenkins...
DevOps Engineer: Ruf Telematik AG
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019 · 7 mos
My work yielded the following business benefits:
Increased the time dedicated to driving innovation and developing new features.
Reduced development costs through infrastructure as code.
Decreased build time and increased the daily build count.
Deployed changes more frequently.
Reduced the mean time to restore the build system.
Decreased toil through enhanced automation wherever possible.
Implemented white-box monitoring to gather metrics on builds and applications.
DevOps Ingenieur & Linux Admin: Mercateo Gruppe
Jun 2013 - Sep 2018 · 5 yrs 4 mos
I worked at Mercateo AG and was responsible for release management and DevOps topics, with a strong focus on automation solutions. My goal was to deliver useful, working software to users as quickly as possible!
Was an AWS Solution Architect.
Integrated directly with AWS.
Developed the AWS staging concept with a bootstrap mechanism.
Implemented AWS infrastructure as code.
Worked on a solution for release automation using current CI and CD tools to help developers transition from "code committed" to "successfully running in production" without any waiting time.
Worked on replacing the current monitoring system in response to events, aiming to improve the situation at our datacenter.
Developed Infrastructure as Code for IT Operations.
Worked on balancing the risk of unavailability with the goals of rapid innovation and efficient service operations, while optimizing features, services, and performance.
Developed a log collecting system for diagnostic or forensic purposes.