Christian Jakob
DevOps Engineer
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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RockstarChristian Jakob is a DevOps Engineer based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area with six years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure. He contributes to notable open-source identity infrastructure projects like ZITADEL, where he has automated deployments, integrated observability with Sentry, and improved operator configurations and production checklists. Comfortable bridging backend development and infrastructure, he focuses on reliable, repeatable release processes and pragmatic documentation that reduces operational friction. Colleagues know him for diagnosing flaky tests and turning those learnings into more robust CI practices. Outside of work he brings creative energy as a guitarist and skate/snowboarder, which surfaces in a pragmatic, collaborative approach to problem solving.
6 years of coding experience
French, English, German
Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
authentication10
authorizations10
user-authentication10
go10
sentry10
authorization10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd10
dockers9
operator9
operator-sdk9
k8s-operator9
docker9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zitadel/zitadel
May 2020 - Jan 2023
ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 37 commits, 49 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions primarily involve setting up and configuring infrastructure and integrating various backend components. The user modified scripts for automated deployments, integrated Sentry for monitoring, and made changes to the configuration files for the ZITADEL operator. They also contributed to documentation updates, including adding a production checklist and improving user manuals. Moreover, the user addressed testing issues by skipping flaky project tests.
serverlesskeycloakzitadelbest-ofera
caos/argocd-secrets
Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
a patched argocd container with gpg and gopass capabilities
Contributions:8 PRs, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
golanggpgpatchedargocddocker
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