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 (181)
bash10
cosign10
security10
certbot10
governance10
kubeconfig10
k8s10
operator10
argoproj10
acme-protocol10
ecosystem10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
ansible-vault10
acme10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
nobbs/mapr-ticket-parser
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
A Go module to decode and parse MapR tickets without requiring connection to a MapR cluster.
Contributions:6 reviews, 62 PRs, 92 pushes in 1 year 1 month
go-modulesmapr
nobbs/terraform-provider-sops
Nov 2024 - Feb 2026
Terraform provider with provider functions to decrypt SOPS encrypted files.
Contributions:8 reviews, 31 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 2 months
terraform-providersops
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