Benjamin Knofe-vider
Infrastructure Engineer at Permapeople
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBenjamin Knofe-vider is a product-minded infrastructure engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms for startups and enterprises. He blends hands-on platform engineering—Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, OKD—with product and team leadership, having led platform teams and driven migrations from bare metal and Chef to multi-cluster Kubernetes. As a former CTO, product manager at Contentful, and recent Staff Platform Engineer at Checkly, he pairs technical depth with an acute sense for business and operational needs like SLO-driven processes and on-call tooling. Now freelancing from Berlin while also running Permapeople, he is available for hands-on or consulting engagements across short and long horizons. Notably, he has experience shipping microservice platforms on bare metal and guiding enterprise-scale infrastructure transitions, a blend that helps bridge cost-conscious ops with cloud scalability.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Medientechnik, Diplom, Medientechnik at HTWK Leipzig
German, English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
1,839reputation
147kreached
50answers
4questions
tdd
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ruby
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rspec
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Github Skills (194)
synthetic10
terraform10
ruby10
terraform-module10
snap10
checkly10
update-checker10
html10
audit10
rails10
authenticate10
microk8s10
terraform-provider10
aws10
logstash9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
benben/simple-ruby-facebook-example
Feb 2013 - Jan 2014
this is a super simple example to authenticate with facebook with the help of sinatra and koala
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 10 months
sinatraauthenticationfacebookauthenticatekoala
checkly/checkly-k8s
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 9 months
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