Summary
Bastian De Groot is a Co-Founder and seasoned cloud and SRE architect with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure across enterprises and startups from Hamburg. He currently leads Hyground, an AI-driven incident resolution startup that applies multi-agent LLM architectures to automate SRE tasks and cut downtime by up to 70%. Previously he served as Hyground Architect and AI Solutions Architect at MaibornWolff, where he prototyped virtual support teams and operationalized AI for cloud platforms. His background spans hands-on Linux and systems roles at Bloomberg, MediaMarktSaturn, and earlier system administration and development work, giving him deep operational credibility. Bastian combines product-facing entrepreneurship with low-level systems expertise, uniquely positioning him to turn emergent AI capabilities into practical, always-on reliability tooling. He’s quietly focused on pushing automation into areas operations teams assumed were impossible to automate.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer