Daniël Franke
Lead Architect at Freelancer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarDaniël Franke is an experienced open-source-focused architect and engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of professional experience and over 20 years tinkering with high-performance Linux and cloud platforms. He designs and builds scalable, distributed systems and microservices—frequently using Go, Kubernetes, Python, Docker and OpenStack—and has led platform initiatives from Kubernetes-as-a-Service to flow-based Kafka backends for high-throughput medical testing. As co-founder of PONC.tech and a frequent freelancer, he blends hands-on coding (notably back-end contributions to ownCloud’s oCIS and improvements to the Cluster API provider for OpenStack) with system design, security-conscious infrastructure and operational troubleshooting. His work often surfaces pragmatic solutions for tricky real-world constraints—offline verification, privacy-preserving medical flows and support for legacy environments—showing a knack for delivering usable architectures under nonstandard requirements. Colleagues know him as a “professional yak shaver”: someone who digs into root causes, automates repetitive toil and leaves platforms more robust and maintainable.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, German
Stackoverflow
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246reached
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Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
ldap10
back-end-development10
scripting10
configuration-management10
automation10
script10
go10
openstack10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
automations10
shell10
lifecycle9
security9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-openstack
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Cluster API implementation for OpenStack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 56 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniël's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `cluster-api-provider-openstack` repository by improving its scripting and configuration capabilities. They addressed issues related to path handling in the `generate-yaml.sh` script, enabling proper execution even with spaces in the path. Further improvements involved adding cloud provider support through the implementation of `cloud.conf` integration. Furthermore, the user worked on adding support for managed security groups.
cluster-apiopenstackk8s-sig-cluster-lifecycle
owncloud/ocis
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
:atom_symbol: ownCloud Infinite Scale
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 35 commits, 59 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Daniël primarily focused on back-end development, specifically within the context of an ownCloud Infinite Scale Stack project. They made significant contributions by modifying the identity and LDAP-related code, introducing public identity errors, and refactoring the code for improved usability. Further, they added new features for Education class and enhanced the existing code by incorporating display name and given name attributes for users. The user's work involved updating and testing the creation of users and also refactoring and updating configurations.
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