Alexej Disterhoft
Staff DevOps Platform Engineer
Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexej Disterhoft is a Staff DevOps Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure, specializing in Kubernetes, GitOps, Ansible, Python and Go. He has led platform initiatives at enterprise scale—rewriting automation stacks with Terraform/Ansible and pioneering ArgoCD-based GitOps for DHL’s Data Lake—while continually improving security and developer experience. Trained as a mathematician (M.Sc.), he brings a rigorous, data-driven approach to platform automation, cost accounting and observability. KCNA, CKAD, CKA and CKS certifications underscore his Kubernetes expertise, and he pairs hands-on engineering (custom controllers, CLI tools, GitHub Actions) with pragmatic security consulting experience. Based in Mainz, Germany, he balances technical leadership with a curious streak—an active “Kubestronaut” who also cares for three fluffy cats.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Russian, German, English, French
Github Skills (193)
controller10
bash10
rancher10
cosign10
certbot10
kubeconfig10
k8s10
operator10
argoproj10
acme-protocol10
letsencrypt10
charts10
continuous-delivery10
acme10
kubernetes-secrets10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nobbs/kubectl-mapr-ticket
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
Kubectl plugin to inspect Mapr tickets used by the Mapr CSI driver.
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 100 PRs in 6 months
kubectl-pluginskubernetesmapr
nobbs/master-thesis
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 276 commits, 8 pushes in 8 months
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