Alexander Zigelski
Principal Cloud Engineer at adesso as a service GmbH
Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Zigelski is a Principal Cloud Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure from Germany, currently leading platform and architecture work at adesso as a service. He combines deep DevOps and ArchOps expertise—shaped by roles at OBI Smart Technologies, storyx, and Evola—with hands-on software engineering experience from companies like Native Instruments and SnappCar. An educator as a Dozent at Universität St.Gallen, he blends practical delivery with teaching, helping teams adopt secure, automated deployment patterns. His open-source contributions include meaningful enhancements to the widely used GitLab Omnibus packaging (Nginx template and proxy header improvements), reflecting a strong grasp of infrastructure-as-code and production-grade server configuration. Trained with an MSc in International Media Informatics, he is as comfortable iterating on low-level server templates as he is shaping long-term cloud architecture.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Internationale Medieninformatik, Master of Science, Internationale Medieninformatik at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
infrastructure-as-code10
chef-solo10
chef-client10
gitlab10
web-proxy10
proxy10
nginx10
proxy-pac10
http-proxy10
ruby9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/omnibus-gitlab
May 2016 - Jun 2016
GitLab Omnibus Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits in 29 days
Contributions summary:Alexander's contributions primarily focused on configuring and enhancing the GitLab Omnibus package. They added options and customizable headers for the registry, specifically in the context of the Nginx configuration. This involved modifying Nginx templates, attributes, and libraries to support features such as proxy header parsing and secure protocol handling, demonstrating a strong understanding of infrastructure as code and server configuration management. The user also made general improvements to the codebase by merging upstream changes and fixing typos.
gitlab-omnibus
crunchtime-ali/brew-formula-updater
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 27 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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