Dirk Wallerstorfer is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Dynatrace with over a decade of experience shaping cloud-native platform products and innovation strategy. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Dynatrace—from Cloud Technology Lead to Director of Innovation—bringing deep expertise in observability, SRE workflows, and productizing platform capabilities. Dirk blends hands-on DevOps and CI/CD experience (including contributions to the Keptn project around Kubernetes, Knative, Istio and Dynatrace integration) with strategic product leadership to accelerate SLO-driven delivery and automated remediation. Based in Linz, Austria, he pairs a Master’s in Software Engineering with a background in security-focused computer science, informing pragmatic, reliable design choices. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex cloud infrastructure challenges into prioritized roadmaps and repeatable operational patterns. He’s equally comfortable authoring deployment scripts as he is aligning cross-functional teams to deliver measurable platform outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
Bachelor's degree Computer- und Mediensicherheit, Bachelor's degree Computer- und Mediensicherheit at FH Hagenberg
Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. Keptn automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of your applications.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:46 commits, 26 PRs, 26 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Dirk's commits primarily focus on infrastructure setup and configuration within the Keptn project, specifically related to deployment and CI/CD. The contributions involve scripting and configuration changes for setting up Kubernetes, Knative, Dynatrace, and Istio. They demonstrate an understanding of deployment processes, automation, and integration with monitoring tools. The commits include modifications to bash scripts, Kubernetes manifests, and deployment configurations, indicating hands-on experience in automating the deployment and management of the Keptn environment.
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 2 months
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Dirk Wallerstorfer - Senior Principal Product Manager at Dynatrace