Axel Von Engel
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolAxel Von Engel is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling for automotive and observability domains. He led the design and global rollout of an Azure Kubernetes Service-based internal developer platform at CARIAD, enabling self-service for 200+ teams and 1,000 developers, and recently joined Datadog to continue scaling observability and platform infrastructure. His background spans end-to-end delivery—from Kotlin Spring Boot microservices and deployment pipeline optimization at Volkswagen to prototyping cloud update systems for vehicles at Elektrobit—demonstrating a knack for cutting long release cycles and operationalizing complex systems. Azure- and AWS-certified, Axel combines deep hands-on engineering with a strong focus on scalability, security, and cross-team enablement, and has experience navigating unique constraints like Azure China deployments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer and Communication Systems Engineering at Technische Universität Braunschweig
German, English
Stackoverflow
339reputation
19kreached
5answers
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Github Skills (53)
kotlin10
groovy10
java10
gradle10
jenkins-api-plugin9
python9
automation9
jenkins-pipeline8
aws8
aws-lambda8
quality-assurance8
jenkins-plugin8
lambda8
requirements-management8
lambda-functions7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
avonengel/adocspec
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
AsciidoctorJ extension to write specifications
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 115 pushes in 1 year 8 months
specificationsasciidoctorj
avonengel/adventofrust
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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