Senior platform engineer with 15+ years in software and 10+ in infrastructure automation and DevOps. Currently own the CI runner platform used by 50+ teams across 5 countries, building software for 3 generations of Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Led a rewrite of the build tooling that cut build time 10x (60 → 6 min), with 95% lower resource consumption and 40% fewer pipeline failures. Mentor engineers and drive developer-experience improvements through self-service tooling, infrastructure as code (IaC), and streamlined change processes.
Berlin, Germany
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Apr 2025 - Present
Senior Build Engineer (SRE)
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Own the build and test tooling and CI runner platform used by 50+ teams across 5 countries to ship software for 3 generations of Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Part of the Build Enablement and SwF Runners teams.
- Led the rewrite of the build tooling in Go/Docker, from root-cause analysis and spec to rollout. Cut build time 10x (60+ → ~6 min), resource consumption -95% (23 → 1 machine), and pipeline-caused failures -40%.
- Led security hardening of the shared Kubernetes and private fleeting runners used worldwide; helped with cost optimization across both.
- Identified architectural flaws in product pipelines and partnered with owning teams to redesign them; mentored engineers on pipeline reliability and adoption of the new build tooling.
- Optimized Logical Blocks generation -33% (90+ → ~60 min).
- Introduced the Change Control Board (CCB) as a single forum to review and prioritize platform changes.
- Shifted support load to self-service through platform docs and internal tooling, including the fleeting runner Terraform module.
Berlin, Germany
Platform Engineer
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Worked as part of the Engineering Enablement team — provided CloudFoundry, Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure, and internal tooling to development teams.
- Extended the internal halfpipe tooling for building reusable GitHub Actions workflows for CloudFoundry, Kubernetes, and Docker Registry deployments.
- Built a Kubernetes deployment reporter and Prometheus Alertmanager routing service for team-specific alerts.
- Maintained Terraform-provisioned infrastructure and team docs for internal platforms.
Berlin, Germany
Interim Team Lead
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Senior Developer/DevOps
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
- Led a team of 4 engineers as interim team lead: planning, task allocation, and client communication for the delivery of 2 client projects and white-labeling of the infographics portal [1].
- Led standardization of infra and deployments across internal and client projects; introduced IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and reusable templates for multi-cloud / multi-stage.
- Designed the CircleCI deployment workflows that became the standard for internal and client projects, and owned the process documentation.
- Led backend development of infographics portal [1] (Rails 5 JSON API), setting quality bar at 99%+ API doc coverage and 90%+ test coverage.
- Redesigned and hardened data pipelines to meet stricter security standards.
Berlin, Germany
Senior Backend Developer
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Built the API for a digital wealth-management platform, including bank and identity-verification integrations, JWT authentication, and 2FA.
PrioriData GmbH.
Berlin, Germany
Full Stack Developer
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Rewrote the app-store data scraping pipeline to run 8–10× faster, and migrated the data to Google BigQuery.
AskNative
Remote, Egypt
Backend Developer/DevOps
May 2013 - Jul 2015
Refactored the API with a full test suite and caching, and ran the Heroku production stack.
Ansible playbooks to automate the configuration of my self-hosted home servers and services, including Pi-hole, S3, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Caddy, VPN portal, backup and more.
Ansible playbooks to automate the installing of different linux distros on physical machines with dual boot support.
A mono-repo with different command line interface (CLI) implementations for the Game of Life in multiple languages (currently Ruby/Rust), with the automation for publishing updates to different package managers using a git-ish workflow.