Axel Köhler is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems from Germany's Greater Dresden Area. He has progressed from hands-on software development to leading platform and SRE practices, driving migrations to Kubernetes and shaping documentation-as-code, ADRs, and Backstage service discovery. At Staffbase he combined technical leadership with process design, automating incident workflows and defining metrics to continuously improve reliability. Earlier roles as Cloud Architect and Senior Developer saw him redesign energy cloud platforms and operate multi-cluster Kubernetes environments on GCP and Azure. Known for pragmatic DevOps evangelism, he pairs deep infrastructure expertise with a knack for turning engineering best practices into measurable organizational change.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Applied Informatics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Applied Informatics at Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW)
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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