Andreas Sommer
Platform Engineer
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Sommer is a Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling from the Greater Munich area. He blends hands-on systems engineering with developer experience work, contributing to notable open-source projects like Skaffold and Cluster API to improve Kubernetes workflows and reliability. At PPRO he progressed from C++ developer to Principal Software Engineer advising on technical strategy, leading cross-team initiatives, and mentoring peers while still coding on the payment gateway. His open-source contributions range from UI improvements in git-cola to SSL/TLS and SNI fixes in Ice, showing versatility across front-end, backend and networking concerns. Now at Giant Swarm he focuses on platform-level automation and observability, drawing on deep experience in CI/CD and runtime configuration. Outside work he documents and shares learnings about Kubernetes, cloud and infrastructure, signalling a commitment to community knowledge transfer.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technische Universität München / TU Munich
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Github Skills (104)
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Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
purplecabbage/phonegap-plugins
Jul 2012 - Nov 2012
Plugins for use with PhoneGap.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:41 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the development of iOS plugins, specifically focusing on creating and modifying native UI elements within a PhoneGap environment. Their work included adding a navigation bar plugin, refactoring its layout, and integrating features such as custom button backgrounds. They also implemented an iOS tab bar plugin, adding support for tint color and fixing layout issues.
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GoogleContainerTools/skaffold
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the skaffold project by enhancing the environment variable handling in profile activation, enabling more precise control over profile activation based on the presence or absence of environment variables. They also improved the parsing of the configuration file by introducing support for YAML anchors. Additionally, they added the functionality to render manifests from previous build results and made improvements to file truncation operations. Their work touches upon the core functionality of skaffold, improving its flexibility and integration with other tools.
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