André Bauer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Staffbase
Moritzburg, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Bauer is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native systems from Germany’s Saxony region. He has led DevOps and SRE efforts at companies like Staffbase, BIKE24 and Kiwigrid, focusing on CI/CD, Helm chart automation and production-grade Kubernetes deployments. A practical open-source contributor, André has improved the Zammad helpdesk’s Docker/Kubernetes install and CI pipelines and helped modernize kiwigrid’s chart publishing workflows. He combines deep systems administration roots with hands-on DevOps engineering, routinely touching systemd units, entrypoint scripts, and backup/Elasticsearch integrations. Off the clock he’s an open-source enthusiast and caravan traveler, bringing a curious, pragmatic approach to long-lived operational challenges.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Industrieelektroniker, Industrieelektroniker at BBW SachsenFachinformatiker Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker Systemintegration at Magix Development GmbH
German, English
Github Skills (32)
git10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
postgresql10
scripting10
charts10
bash10
docker-compose10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
automation10
script10
helm10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
zammad/zammad-docker-compose
Dec 2016 - Dec 2022
Zammad Docker images for docker-compose & Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 98 reviews, 247 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:André primarily focused on improving the Zammad Docker Compose and Kubernetes setup. Their contributions involved fixing typos, renaming containers, and updating entrypoint scripts. They also made changes to improve service dependencies, added elasticsearch configuration, and integrated backup container functionality. Furthermore, they updated the installation process for the Zammad application by pulling directly the latest zammad version from the git repository.
zammaddocker-imagedockerrubycompose
kiwigrid/helm-charts
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
Helm charts for Kubernetes curated by Kiwigrid
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 143 commits, 289 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:André primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline for deploying Helm charts. They introduced and modified scripts for chart linting, deployment to kiwigrid.github.io, and integration with CircleCI/GitHub Actions. Contributions included setting up environment variables, configuring git users for automated commits, and addressing issues to streamline chart publishing, as well as adding chart changes detection. They updated the process to work with Github Actions.
chartshelmkiwigridhelm-chartskubernetes
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