Hello World

Hi, I am Michael, a Platform Engineer with interests in home automation and 3D printing, living in Kiel, Germany.

I started as a Fullstack Software Developer. Like many, it all started with creating private websites using a typical LAMP stack. Later on, I worked for 10+ years with Java and JavaScript in an enterprise environment. During my studies I became self-employed to finance it.

After many years of self-employment to finance my studies and many years using Java and JavaScript in an enterprise environment, I became more and more enthusiastic about cloud-native development and DevOps topics.
Since 2019, I've been working in a platform team that initially started to build an on-premise dev platform based on Kubernetes and GitLab. I am very lucky and proud to be able to represent my team as a Solution Architect for a while and nowadays (temporarily) as Product Owner.

In my free time — guess what — I spend a lot of my time on a computer as well, working on my home automation, learning new things, gaming, or 3D printing. I like to attend online and local meetups and participate in the cloud-native community. That's why I am also part of the orga team of our local Förde DevOps Meetup group.

I’m passionate about connecting with like-minded professionals, so I’d be happy to hear from you!

Feel free to contact me using the links below.

// Michael