Christoph Held
Cloud Architect at Allianz Technology
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Held is a cloud architect based in Munich with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms across AWS and GCP. He has led engineering teams and cloud consulting practices, including running Kubernetes clusters measured in tens of thousands of CPU cores and managing a team of nine direct reports. A former top contributor and maintainer in the Kubernetes project, he brought backend and DevOps expertise to the widely used Kubernetes Dashboard, adding production-ready build and monitoring integrations such as Prometheus metrics. His background spans OpenStack contribution, productizing Kubernetes-based solutions, and even an early patent-backed IoT warning device developed during his time at TUM—evidence of a strong blend of systems-level engineering and practical invention.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur, Informatik, Diplom-Ingenieur, Informatik at Technische Universität München
English
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
prometheus8
javascript5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/dashboard
Nov 2015 - Nov 2017
General-purpose web UI for Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:55 commits, 105 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily focused on backend development and deployment aspects of the Kubernetes Dashboard. Their contributions included modifying build scripts, setting up production and development environments for the backend, and integrating error handling. They also worked on updating dependencies, especially to improve the functionality of the sparklines. Furthermore, the user contributed towards integrating Prometheus metrics for API calls, and prepared the hyperkube build for a 1.3 release.
web-uiclusterspurposekubernetes-clusterskubernetes
cheld/ospo
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:12 reviews, 20 commits, 18 PRs in 1 month
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