Nico Feulner

DevOps & Software Engineer

Profile

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A DevOps engineer with a high proportion of Software Engineering tasks in his daily business. Has a passion for open source software, primarily the tools in the CNCF landscape and all things Kubernetes (declarative, distributed software❤️). Loves designing and implementing scalable software architectures and pipelines, and generally making complicated tasks easily and securely accessible. Likes to plan and develop highly-scalable, novel software solutions that reach and help a large number of people. Enjoys socializing as well as sharing and discussing technologies, findings and achievements both with colleagues and the community. Self-hosts everything the K8s way from his own music streaming service to smart home until everything crashes and he needs a flashlight to find the bathroom🔦.
Loves the outdoors with a passion for cycling🚲, hiking🥾 as well as skiing⛷ and is an active voluntary tour guide at DNT in Norway. Is into travelling🌎 and experiencing other cultures💬.

Work experience

  • 2024-present
    DevOps Engineer (Conta AS, Ålesund)
    • Designing and building up a new infrastructure for the Norwegian market with GitOps based on Crossplane
    • Developing and maintaining existing services further
    • Maintaining and migrating old infrastructure to new one
  • 2020-2024
    DevOps Engineer (Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH, Bamberg)
    • Developed and operated an ordering, management and billing tool for a private Kubernetes platform based on Rancher (gRPC microservices written in Golang & Angular frontend)
    • Built pipelines for testing and deploying software on Kubernetes
    • Developed K8s controllers for automatic resource scalings in a GitOps-centric setup
    • Led the software development tasks in this Kubernetes platform team
    • Participated in building a GCP landingzone by integrating the user management in the internal IdP and building a project ordering tool
  • 2017-2020
    Dual Student in Applied Computer Science (Deutsche Telekom AG, Nuremberg/Bamberg)
    • Worked as an ordinary software engineer apart from few occassional course days at university
    • Participated in an exchange programme at T-Systems Slovakia in Košice
    • Contributed to a ticket system built with Symfony in a small team of Software Developers

Education

  • 2021-2023
    MSc Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (University of York)
  • 2017-2020
    BSc Applied Computer Science (Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig)

Skills

  • Cloud technologies
    has broad experience working with both public and private clouds as well as employing a wide range of cloud-native products and maintaining the infrastructure declaratively. Simply loves doing things the K8s way both privately and at work.
  • Programming
    writes software (mostly microservices, frontends and K8s operators but has experience with a wider range of technologies, e.g. Android) at scale in various languages and frameworks (lately mostly Golang and Java with Micronaut but has professionally worked with many other frameworks before)
  • CI/CD
    has lots of experience working with modern CI/CD tooling, first and foremost Gitlab Pipelines, Github Actions and GitOps tools like ArgoCD and Flux
  • Testing
    is experienced using several testing concepts and frameworks effectively (knows how to write them well and not only for high code coverage scores)
  • Agile work
    has experience working both in custom collaboration environments and in common agile team collaboration frameworks (e.g. Scrum, SAFE) with related tooling

Languages

  • German
    Mother tongue

  • English
    Fluent

  • Norwegian
    Advanced

  • Latin
    Basic