Arik Grahl is a Site Reliability Engineer and Staff Software Systems Architect with 11 years of experience, currently based in Berlin and working at SysEleven while maintaining a long-running freelance practice. He blends deep operational expertise from his DevOps tenure at Implisense with entrepreneurial grit as co-founder and CTO/CEO of multiple startups, shipping full‑stack products and infrastructure. Arik holds a Master’s (1.0) and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Technische Universität Berlin, bringing both rigorous academic training and practical systems design to production environments. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on reliability, scalable architectures, and automation, and is equally at home pairing with product teams or diving into low-level system details. Notably, his career balances steady engineering leadership with hands-on coding and founding experience, reflecting a pragmatic builder’s mindset.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik at Technische Universität Berlin
Allgemeine Hochschulreife, Allgemeine Hochschulreife at Gymnasium Alte Landesschule
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