Christian Heckelmann
Principal Product Engineer at Dynatrace
Greater Wurzburg Area Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Heckelmann is a Principal Product Engineer based in the Greater Würzburg area with nine years of focused experience in cloud-native engineering, DevOps, and product-facing backend work. At Dynatrace he has progressed through roles from Principal Cloud Engineer to Principal Product Engineer and Execution Lead, shaping cloud architectures and delivery practices across large-scale observability products. He contributes to prominent open-source tooling—most notably enhancing the Keptn CLI—bringing practical Go development and Git-integration experience to SLO-driven application lifecycle automation. Christian blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, often refactoring interfaces and APIs to improve maintainability and developer ergonomics. His background in systems, databases, and network operations dating back to the early 2000s gives him a pragmatic, operations-first perspective on designing reliable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker Systemintegration at Städt. Kaufm. Berufsschule Würzburg
English
Github Skills (13)
go10
api10
apidoc10
cli9
orchestration9
orchestra9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
operation8
continuous-delivery8
cloud-native7
git7
cnc6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
keptn/keptn
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. Keptn automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of your applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to enhancing the Keptn CLI with new commands for retrieving project and service details. They refactored existing code, improving the structure and readability of the CLI interface. Their work involved Go programming and interacting with API endpoints for project and service management. The user also participated in adding Git upstream functionality to projects.
multi-stageautomatescycledata-drivenorchestration
checkelmann/clintainer
Oct 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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