Benjamin Rottler
Teamlead Platform Engineering & Observability
Risch-Rotkreuz, Zug, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin 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
8 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
Github Skills (33)
quickbooks10
toolbox10
accounting-software10
data-handling10
tax10
unix9
accounting9
system-integration9
operating-system9
kernel9
browser8
flutter-plugin5
linux4
windows4
flutter-test4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
QuantumDancer/rottler.io
Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
My take on the cloud resume challenge
Contributions:42 PRs, 80 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
QuantumDancer/AUDITOR
Apr 2023 - May 2024
Accounting data handling toolbox for opportunistic resources
Contributions:196 pushes, 101 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 1 month
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