Chris Rau is a Product Owner and Senior DevOps engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience designing, automating and operating production-grade Kubernetes clusters and Helm ecosystems from the ground up. Based in Bielefeld, Germany, he currently leads Managed Kubernetes product efforts at teuto.net while still driving engineering work as a Señor DevOps Engineer and running his own company, demonstrating a blend of product leadership and deep technical craft. He built the CI/CD, Git workflows, containerization and cloud migration for a SaaS platform and maintains multiple clusters and Helm charts daily, with a particular focus on automation and GitOps. A co-founder of Code For Bielefeld, he pairs community-minded initiative with commercial delivery and a Bachelor’s in Applied Computer Science. Notably, he brings an operator’s mindset to product decisions—shaping features based on real operational burdens rather than abstractions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik at Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW)
Contributions:517 commits, 304 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
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