Andreas Grimmer
Principal Product Engineer at Dynatrace
Linz, Upper Austria
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Top SchoolAndreas Grimmer is a capability engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native delivery and observability solutions from research to production. Based in Linz, Austria, he progressed through technical and strategic roles at Dynatrace—from Technology Strategist to Principal Product Engineer and now Capability Engineering Lead—bridging product engineering, platform strategy, and team enablement. He contributes to notable open-source tooling such as Keptn, enhancing CLI onboarding for Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts and improving auth, integration tests, and CloudEvent generation for SLO-driven delivery. Holding PhD-level research experience from Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, he combines deep systems thinking with hands-on DevOps and back-end engineering. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed-system requirements into pragmatic, testable automation that accelerates multi-stage deployment and operations.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
apidoc9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
api9
cloudevents9
test-integration8
unit-testing8
integration-testing8
testing8
unit-test8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
keptn/keptn
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. Keptn automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of your applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 115 reviews, 1262 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily worked on the back-end functionality of the Keptn CLI, specifically focusing on the service onboarding command. Their contributions included the addition of functionality to onboard services using Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts, making changes to the command structure to accommodate pure Kubernetes manifests. The user also made updates to authentication mechanisms, integration tests, and the generation of Cloud Events related to service creation and deployment.
multi-stageautomatescycledata-drivenorchestration
agrimmer/keptn
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Keptn is a message-driven control-plane for application delivery and automated operations
Contributions:21 pushes in 1 day
golangmessage-drivenapplication-deliverycontrol-planeplane
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