Andreas Wittig
Co-Founder at widdix GmbH
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Wittig is a co-founder and independent software developer with 12 years of hands-on experience accelerating cloud and DevOps transformations, particularly on AWS. Based in Ulm, Germany, he and his brother migrated a banking platform to AWS early in the industry and since 2015 have built micro‑SaaS products and helped startups to enterprises modernize their cloud infrastructure. He co-authored the bestselling Amazon Web Services in Action and maintains influential open-source CloudFormation templates (widdix/aws-cf-templates) that power real-world deployments like WordPress, Fargate services, and Terraform state backends. Andreas combines deep infrastructure-as-code expertise with product instincts—shipping tools such as bucketAV and marbot—while regularly contributing security and monitoring improvements for S3 and other AWS services.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik at Fachhochschule Stuttgart - Hochschule für Technik
English, German
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Github Skills (30)
amazon-web-services10
terraform10
terraformer10
automation10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
automations10
devops10
aws-fargate9
amazon-ecs9
waf9
web-application-firewall9
dockers9
cloud-infrastructure9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
widdix/aws-cf-templates
Oct 2015 - May 2022
Free Templates for AWS CloudFormation
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:1 release, 165 reviews, 109 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on infrastructure as code and automation, contributing to the creation and modification of CloudFormation templates. They implemented new templates and updated existing ones, particularly for WordPress deployments with different database backends (MySQL and Aurora), and also integrated a load testing solution. The user's work included setting up Fargate services with Cloud Map support and creating DynamoDB global secondary indexes. Furthermore, the user worked on improving Elasticache Redis configuration, and they introduced new templates for Terraform state management and Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration.
aws-cloudformationcloudformation-templateinfrastructureawsamazon-web-services
widdix/mastodon-on-aws
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Host your own Mastodon instance on AWS
Contributions:6 reviews, 47 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
awscloudformationmastodon
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