Erol Zavidic
Principal Infrastructure Consultant at Thoughtworks
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolErol Zavidic is a Principal Infrastructure Consultant based in Cologne with over three decades of international IT experience and 13 years in senior cloud and infrastructure advisory roles. He helps enterprises align business and IT for cloud adoption, combining hands-on architecture, operational leadership and change management from roles at Thoughtworks, Wipro, Cloudreach and Deutsche Telekom. His background spans storage, backup and restore engineering to leading application operations and incident management, giving him deep operational empathy for mission-critical systems. Erol contributes to open-source infrastructure work—his GitHub activity includes practical build fixes for OpenIndiana components like ncurses, libmemcached and webalizer—showing he still digs into low-level build and integration issues. Colleagues value his ability to translate large-scale cloud strategy into executable operating models and pragmatic technical fixes. He brings a rare mix of long-term product-operational expertise and hands-on engineering discipline to complex cloud transformations.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Mechanical Engineering, High School Mechanical Engineering at Technicka skola za strojarstvo i brodogradnju
German, English, Croatian, Slovak
Github Skills (10)
operating-system10
ncurses10
il10
openindiana10
libmemcached10
zlib9
libxml29
c178
berkeley-db8
c118
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenIndiana/oi-userland
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Unified build system for OpenIndiana distribution components
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 20 days
Contributions summary:Erol contributed to the OpenIndiana userland project by enabling and integrating the ncurses library and bumping its version. They also made changes to incorporate and bump the version of libmemcached. The user fixed a build issue related to Berkeley DB within the webalizer component. Additionally, they worked on merging updates and fixes from upstream sources, specifically focusing on the webalizer component, including unbreaking it and bumping its version.
esxioperating-systemrisk-assessmentredfishillumos
erolms/microrr
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
microrr - Microservices Registry and Routing Framework
Contributions:10 PRs, 21 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 2 months
routingcloudservice-discoverymicroservicesmicroservice
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