Alexander Knipping
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Exaring AG
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Knipping is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in infrastructure and SRE with a decade of experience building reliable cloud platforms and mentoring engineering teams. Based in Hamburg, he blends product-focused stakeholder communication with deep technical expertise in distributed systems, telemetry and Go. His open-source work includes meaningful contributions to notable projects like M3 (a distributed TSDB used in large metrics platforms) and Pyrra, where he improved Kubernetes operator integration and robustness. He has a Master’s in Computer Science and a background spanning hands-on DevOps to site reliability roles, often tackling concurrency, observability, and deployment edge-cases. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex reliability requirements into practical, testable platform features that scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Technische Universität ChemnitzBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Sociology at Leipzig UniversitySociology, Sociology at Université Pierre Mendès-France (Grenoble II)
English, German, French
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
openai-api10
apidoc10
configuration-management10
tsd10
go10
prometheus10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
concurrency10
aggregator9
controller9
metric9
ai9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pyrra-dev/pyrra
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Making SLOs with Prometheus manageable, accessible, and easy to use for everyone!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 19 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Pyrra project. They added a `ConfigMapMode` flag and implemented logic to reconcile ConfigMaps instead of PrometheusRules, indicating involvement in the Kubernetes operator. Furthermore, the user implemented error handling and made several corrections to the ConfigMap creation and update processes, and implemented unit tests. These changes suggest a focus on integrating Pyrra with Kubernetes and refining the deployment process.
golangprometheus-exporteraccessibledockerkubernetes
m3db/m3
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 85 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the back-end components of the M3 project, focusing on debugging and feature additions related to the debug functionality. Their work involved adding capabilities to generate debug zip dumps, including the creation of custom sources and HTTP endpoints. The user also addressed configuration-related issues by implementing deprecation checks and enabling automatic folder creation for KV cache. Furthermore, the user enhanced the system with safety measures in concurrent operations, particularly in the handling of bloom filters.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
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