Summary
Benjamin Aleritsch is an IT Security Consultant based in Munich with eight years of hands-on experience securing cloud, cluster and physical infrastructure for government and enterprise clients. He combines a strong research background—PhD-level physics and projects at TUM—with practical DevSecOps and GitOps expertise, automating migrations and conversions across databases like GraphQL, HANA, MySQL, Neo4j and PostgreSQL. Benjamin has led complex security audits and hardening work spanning hardware, networks, OS configuration and hosting, and has repeatedly implemented cluster installations and performance optimizations with Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform and Helm. His toolkit also includes automated data conversion pipelines (JSON, Python, shell), security scanning clusters, and CI/CD integrations for offline and air-gapped environments. Notably, he bridges lab-grade scientific engineering (biotech instrumentation, SBOL visual tooling, turbidostat design) with production IT practices, making him adept at translating experimental systems into auditable, secure deployments. Fluent in both deep technical detail and client-facing consulting, he thrives on solving interdisciplinary security and infrastructure challenges.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Diplom (pre degree), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Diplom (pre degree), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Munich University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München / University of Munich
Dr. rer. nat., Physics, Dr. rer. nat., Physics at Technical University Munich