Dirk Pahl
Senior AWS Cloud Administrator
Brandenburg, Germany
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Top SchoolDirk Pahl is a Senior AWS Cloud Administrator with 13 years of professional experience and a software engineering career stretching back to 2001. He combines deep backend and DevOps expertise—spanning PHP, Java/Spring Boot, Go, Ansible, and monitoring stacks—with current focus on architecting and operating AWS environments at DB Systel. Previously he led backend teams and migrations to microservices at Onefootball and ran backend/devops responsibilities at Brevo (formerly Sendinblue), maintaining self-managed infrastructure like Percona and Elasticsearch. Dirk’s background includes building high-traffic REST APIs, CI/CD automation, and large-scale ticketing systems, reflecting a track record of reliability and performance under load. Based in Brandenburg, Germany, he brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach and a long-standing passion for shipping production code (and coffee-fueled late nights). Notably, his career shows a steady progression from QA and backend roles into architecture and cloud operations, giving him a broad view from tests to production.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Business Informatics, 2, Diploma, Business Informatics, 2 at University of Applied Sciences Wildau
German, Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (191)
dashboard10
python10
php-fpm10
telegraf10
grafana10
cosign10
ubuntu10
elasticsearch10
xpath10
influxdb10
ssh10
monitoring10
mqtt10
ansible10
golang10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nl2go/ansible-role-hetzner-failover
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Ansible role providing a HA setup using hetzner vSwitch and keepalived
Contributions:1 release, 43 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
hetzneransibleansible-rolekeepalivedrole
dirkaholic/vagrant-php-dev-box
Jun 2012 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 65 commits, 30 PRs in 7 years 7 months
nginxvagrantmysqlboxphp
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