Summary
Benjamin Rottler is a Linux and Cloud DevOps engineer with 13 years of experience who combines rigorous scientific training (Physics PhD) with hands-on production operations. He co-manages 120+ Linux VMs, led migrations from legacy stacks to HAProxy and a Grafana/Loki/Mimir monitoring platform, and turned manual server administration into modular, version-controlled Ansible and Terraform automation. His background running high-throughput compute clusters for particle physics informs a disciplined approach to observability, containerization, and reproducible infrastructure, having also containerized monitoring/test frameworks for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid. Based in Switzerland, he bridges academia and industry by translating large-scale data-processing and research-grade automation into reliable SaaS operations.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.), Physics, Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.), Physics at The University of Freiburg
English, German