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Hendrik Thiel

not available until 06/30/2024

Last update: 26.03.2024

Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Graduation: Dipl.-Informatiker (FH)
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Full Professional)

Skills

Specialist in internet related tech with entrepreneurial thinking and 20+ years working experience. Studied computer science, founded startups and created products.
An idea driven Digital Native with a "get things done" mentality. Background in IT management, networking, cloud tech, deep knowledge of AdTech/Martech, especially video & audio advertising. Creative background, Hands-on or Team leadership. Likes new tech, digital strategy & transformation.


Key Skills
  • highly technical allrounder
  • roles
    • Senior DevOps Engineer
    • Senior Cloud Architect/Engineer (AWS)
    • Platform Engineer
    • Mobile Developer (Android, Flutter)
  • cloud native approach with focus on AWS
    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
    • AWS Certified Developer Associate
    • Serverless/Lambda, CDK (typescript/python), S3, API Gateway, custom authorizer, SNS, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, serverless framework, RDS, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, Cognito, EC2, VPC, ALB, ECS/FARGATE, ECR, EKS, documentDB, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, codeCommit, codeDeploy, codePipeline
    • Google Cloud Platform (AppEngine, ComputeEngine, Firebase) 
    • monitoring Kibana, elastic/opensearch, prometheus, nagios
  • devops/CI/CD
    • Ansible
    • Gitlab CI
    • terraform
    • fastlane
    • sonarqube
    • JFrog Artifactory
    • SSO, Keycloak, OpenId
    • github, Bitbucket
    • Datadog
    • Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, EKS, Helm, Rancher, ArgoCD
    • Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Kibana, filebeat, metricbeat
    • Grafana, Prometheus, KIbana for monitoring
    • ML & AI Pipelines CUDA in Docker, pytorch, tensorflow
    • Whitesource/Mend renovate
    • Presto/Trino
  • App Dev / Languages
    • python / firebase / AWS SDK / CDK (backend)
    • python openai/chatGPT Prompt writing, chatbots etc.
    • Java Android App/Firebase (Focus Frontend UI)
    • Typescript/node.js CDK
    • Dart / Flutter (mobile, frontend)
    • Shellscript/Bash
    • javascript/typescript/angular (frontend)
  • AdTech - online marketing expert (15 years in online marketing)
    • ad technology, ad creation, ad campaigning, frontend/backend development,
    • video/audio adtech IAB VAST, VPAID, SIMID
    • ad stitching services, streaming server, ffmpeg, aws elemental
    • SDK handling Admob & Doubleclick/Google IMA SDK
    • RTB, DSP, SSP, DMP, adserver, adserving
    • in.page, in.stream, DOOH
  • Linux expert
    • LPIC-1 (Linux certification I)
    • LPIC-2 (Linux certification II)
  • extensive networking knowledge. Started working on highly scalable serverfarms on premise in 2001.
  • management
    • hands on or teamlead of dev/service teams
    • consultant & advisor
    • product owner level
    • dedicated, responsible, loyal, able to work in a team
    • proactive, preventive
    • AdA
  • digital since 1988

special interests
  • long lasting Photoshop experience
  • zeplin, sketch, Adobe XD, After Effects, building UIs
  • creative work on ads and apps (android and cross-platform with flutter)
  • idea, concept work, graphics & design, visual composition, UI mockups and java code from zero to playstore for own Android Apps 
  • video encoding and editing with Lightworks, ffmpeg
  • cloud based, serverless audio and video backends
  • APIs Tibber, Easee

Project history

12/2023 - Present
Senior DevOps & AWS Cloud Architect/Engineer
(Internet and Information Technology, 50-250 employees)

- AWS EC2 Automatisation with Terraform and Ansible
- Containerization and move to Kubernetes/EKS

08/2023 - Present
Senior DevOps & AWS Cloud Architect/Engineer
(Internet and Information Technology, 50-250 employees)

- terraform
- gitlab ci
- AWS EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, API Gateway, K3s, AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center, Cloudwatch, RDS, Cloudfront, Route53, S3, Lambda, EFS

03/2017 - Present
Geschäftsführer - DevOps/Cloud Architect/Mobile Developer
appex5 GmbH (Internet and Information Technology, < 10 employees)

- openAI/ chatGPT prototyping using different models, tests in Python, flask with paid subscription
- video app development on Firebase (auth, admob, firestore and others) with Flutter/Dart
- Android/Java Game App Development with Firebase and Google Cloud Functions
- Implementing different APIs (facebook, twitter, google, etc.) for fetching content to incorporate in app in Flutter/Dart and also Android/Java
- building CI/CD workflows with Git, Github, Gitlab, vercel, Docker, Dockerhub, AWS ECR, Fastlane (for apps), TravisCI for CI/CD
- create a media REST API (video, audio, image, text) in Node.js and Angular (UI + tailwind) in Docker on AWS, fly.io.
- Setup AWS - ECS Fargate with Cloudformation, cloudwatch, serverless services tests in lambda instead ECS Fargate for comparison, API Gateway and dynamodb, mongoDB
- Setup, include stripe in Angular UI
- Evaluate Terraform, compare with Cloudformation
- Setup AWS  EKS Kubernetes Cluster with AWS CDK (instead of Cloudformation) of small web app.
- Setup Keycloak
- Setup Google Compute/App Engine for Android App with Docker and jetty
- Evaluation & setup test env for App Project with Docker, Kubernetes, Skaffold, Helm on Google Cloud
- setting up corporate Homepage serverless on AWS. Use AWS Route53, Lambda, Api Gateway, s3, Cloudfront
- AWS hardening, security setup (POLP), securing services

08/2022 - 10/2023
AWS Cloud Engineer
(Internet and Information Technology, 500-1000 employees)

- AWS Lambda in Python,
- AWS CDK with Python and Typescript
- S3, Cloudformation, API Gateway, IAM, EC2, Cloudwatch, Cloudfront, Route53, SNS
- Hashicorp vault
- Concept, documentation, planning, architecture
- Gitlab CI
- Artifactory
- serverless framework

08/2021 - 10/2022
DevOps Engineer
(Internet and Information Technology, 500-1000 employees)

- Kubernetes
- Gitlab CI
- Helm
- Rancher
- Ansible
- Artifactory
- elastic search
- Mend
- Sonarqube

02/2021 - 07/2021
DevOps Engineer
(Internet and Information Technology, 500-1000 employees)

- Openshift
- Gitlab CI
- Helm
- Microservices
- Jupyterhub
- Airflow
- Superset
- min.io
- Datascience Cluster

08/2020 - 12/2020
DevOps/AWS Cloud Consultant
(Marketing, PR and Design, 10-50 employees)

- Serverless/Lambda
- S3
- Cloudfront
- Cloudflare
- RDS
- CloudFormation
- DynamoDB
- API Gateway 
- EC2 
- VPC 
- ECS/FARGATE 
- ECR

03/2020 - 06/2020
APP Entwicklung in Flutter - technical startup consulting/DevOps/AWS
(Internet and Information Technology, 10-50 employees)

- created MediaPlayer from scratch, design, implementation in Flutter/Dart, services for IOS and Android
- concept with Adobe XD
- admob, facebook, google login, video, audio handling, charts, provider etc.
- firebase firestore
- all design, look & feel
- consulting backend, api, python, flask, nginx
- build setup in aws 
- bitbucket, git handling, jira, confluence, ci/cd, deploy pipeline

01/2020 - 03/2020
DevOps/AWS Consultant - Flutter Developer
dataWhizz (Internet and Information Technology, < 10 employees)

- concept, implementation of Media App for Android & IOS done with Flutter/Dart 
- youtube API, Video & Image Manipulation
- media AWS backend (nginx/Python/ffmpeg) API

02/2017 - 12/2019
Head of Video & Creative Solutions
ADITION technologies AG (Internet and Information Technology, 50-250 employees)


04/2008 - 03/2017
CTO / co-founder
mov.ad GmbH (Internet and Information Technology, 10-50 employees)


09/2009 - 12/2009
consultant video advertising
SevenOne media GmbH (Media and Publishers, 50-250 employees)


07/2009 - 08/2009
consultant adtech
AdLink GmbH (Media and Publishers)


07/2008 - 11/2008
consultant adtech
Lycos Europe GmbH (Media and Publishers, 50-250 employees)


04/2007 - 07/2008
technical engineer
web.de GmbH (Media and Publishers, 50-250 employees)


03/2006 - 04/2007
Network Operations Specialist
Doubleclick / Google (Media and Publishers, 1000-5000 employees)


02/2000 - 03/2006
Senior Network Engineer - IT Manager
Falk eSolutions AG (Internet and Information Technology, 50-250 employees)


Certifications

AWS Certified Developer - Associate
2019
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
2019
LPIC-1 (Linux certification I)
2008
LPIC-2 (Linux certification II)
2008

Local Availability

Only available in these countries: Germany, Austria und Switzerland
Gerne München. Düsseldorf, Ruhrgebiet, Köln, Hamburg, Berlin

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