Dominik Schulz
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolDominik Schulz is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating high-volume internet platforms on open-source stacks, currently applying his expertise at Google. He combines deep Linux and networking knowledge with hands-on software development in Go, distributed systems design (CAP), and cloud-native operations across GCP and AWS. As Head of Infrastructure at JustWatch he led a migration from Docker on AWS to Kubernetes on GCP and wrote reliable Go services using gRPC, tracing, and advanced monitoring. Dominik is an active contributor to Prometheus and its ecosystem—adding service discovery metrics, exporter instrumentation, tests, and practical Grafana/alerting examples—showing a strong commitment to observable, production-ready systems. Based in Bavaria with an M.Sc. in Computer Science from TU Darmstadt, he brings a rare blend of datacenter-level operational leadership and developer-first engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that keep latency low and availability high under real-world internet traffic.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtAbitur, Abitur at Franziskanergymnasium Kreuzburg, Großkrotzenburg
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
amazon-elasticsearch10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
alertview10
alerts10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
prometheus10
aws-elasticsearch10
kubernetes-pods10
elasticsearch10
metric10
elasticsearch-api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus-community/elasticsearch_exporter
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Elasticsearch stats exporter for Prometheus
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 20 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dominik contributed to the project by adding Prometheus and Grafana examples, which involved writing alerting rules and setting up monitoring configurations. They also documented missing metrics within the codebase, enhancing the project's usability. Furthermore, the user added tests to the repository, improving its reliability and maintainability. Lastly, they instrumented the exporter and added index metrics.
exporterprometheus-exporterstatsprometheuselasticsearch
prometheus/prometheus
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 20 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Dominik contributed to the Prometheus monitoring system by adding metrics for various service discovery mechanisms, including EC2, Azure, Consul, Kubernetes, and File-SD. They also implemented code to report GCE instance metadata and fixed minor bugs and spelling errors within the codebase. Additionally, the user updated metric names and added a guard against nil tags in EC2 discovery.
time-series-databaseprometheus-exporterseries-databasealertingdatabase
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