Axel Köhler
Staff Engineer at Staffbase
Greater Dresden Area Germany
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Top SchoolAxel 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)
German, English
Github Skills (140)
infrastructure10
dx10
docker-container10
maven10
microservices10
k8s10
gcloud10
charts10
kubernetes-cluster10
kubectl10
ditto10
helm10
kubernetes10
eclipseiot10
service-catalog10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kiwigrid/gcloud-kubectl-helm
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
Docker image for the quaternity of gcloud, helm, kubectl and SOPS
Contributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 2 months
docker-imagegcloudhelmkubectlsops
kiwigrid/Argus
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
alertingmetricstime-seriesmonitoring
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