Alfred Krohmer
Staff DevOps Engineer at GoTo
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlfred Krohmer is a Staff DevOps Engineer with 12 years' experience building and operating cloud-native developer platforms, currently unifying Kubernetes deployments across two clouds at GoTo. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at LogMeIn, gaining deep operational experience in platform automation, CI/CD and multi-cloud infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, Alfred has enhanced the AWS Route53 provider for the widely used external-dns project, adding routing-policy support and cleaner abstractions for DNS record management. Based in Dresden with a Diplom-Ingenieur from TU Dresden (grade 1.3), he combines rigorous academic foundations with practical, production-grade engineering and a focus on maintainable, testable infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur, Informationssystemtechnik, 1,3, Diplom-Ingenieur, Informationssystemtechnik, 1,3 at Technische Universität Dresden
Github Skills (8)
route5310
kubernetes10
go10
aws10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
external-dns10
testing9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 13 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alfred primarily contributed to the AWS Route53 provider implementation, enhancing its functionality and adding support for various routing policies. They refactored code using switch statements and added an abstraction layer for handling SetIdentifiers. The user's changes also included modifying test cases within the TXT registry and the service source to accommodate the new AWS Route53 features, demonstrating a focus on DNS record management and configuration. They also addressed review comments and fixed typos.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
alfredkrohmer/autoscaler
Aug 2018 - Mar 2025
Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
hands-onupstreamautoscalingk8skubernetes
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