Summary
Christian Niehoff is an Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, primarily at Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG. He designs and runs Kubernetes-based environments on AWS (EKS, VPC, Transit Gateways, ECR) and manages observability and streaming stacks including Prometheus, Grafana/Loki and Kafka. Christian brings strong Infrastructure as Code discipline using Terraform/Terragrunt and has implemented entire developer networks with tools like GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube and Nexus. His background spans CI/CD engineering and Java development, giving him a practical end-to-end view from build pipelines to production services. Based in Düsseldorf, he focuses on making good systems easy to use while deliberately raising the bar for risky practices. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic platform choices and hands-on delivery of secure, scalable developer infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universität Duisburg-Essen