Bastian Hofmann
Head Of Product at Freelancer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBastian Hofmann is a seasoned product leader and Kubernetes specialist with 14 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native platforms and developer tooling. As Head of Product at Qdrant he drives the vision and delivery of Qdrant Cloud, making vector search and agentic RAG accessible to enterprise teams. His background blends hands-on engineering—from Composer and Rancher dashboard contributions to Kubernetes platform work at Kubermatic—with field-facing roles at SUSE and Rancher, giving him rare empathy for both operators and product stakeholders. A frequent international speaker on Kubernetes, DevOps and architecture, he translates complex infrastructure challenges into pragmatic product features and developer experiences. He’s based in Berlin and is known for bridging open-source contributions with commercial productization, including improving Composer’s PEAR handling and enhancing Rancher UI logging and backend integrations. Practical, technical and customer-focused, he excels at turning deep systems knowledge into usable cloud products.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Angewandte Informatik (Applied Computer Science), Bachelor of Science Angewandte Informatik (Applied Computer Science) at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
German, English
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Github Skills (40)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
javascript10
dashboard10
package-management10
ingress10
cloud-infrastructure10
rancher10
php10
infrastructure10
front-end-development10
vue10
xml-parsing10
kubernetes-pods10
logging10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
kubermatic/kubermatic
Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform - the Central Kubernetes Management Platform For Any Infrastructure
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes Specialist
DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes SpecialistContributions:37 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Bastian primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform. They made significant changes to enhance the platform's integration with OpenStack, Azure, and AWS. The user also worked on improving the add-on controller, adding Prometheus metrics and alerts, and configuring security settings within the Kubernetes API server. Their work involved configuring deployments, services and roles.
kubermatic-kubernetes-platformkubermaticcluster-apiinfrastructurek8s
rancher/dashboard
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
The Rancher UI
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 42 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bastian has been actively contributing to the Rancher dashboard UI. They implemented UI components for logging output plugins, including GELF, and enhanced existing features like the certificate secrets on ingress detail pages. The user also worked on backend configurations such as making kubeconfig TTL settings configurable and fixing issues related to workload and service selector logic. In addition to UI and backend features, they addressed bug fixes and implemented enhancements to the display and functionality of various resources within the dashboard.
rancherkubernetesdashboard
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