Felix Franz
Operations Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Franz is an Operations Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining reliable infrastructure and release processes. At Deutsche Post E-Post Development he focuses on operational excellence, automation and DevOps practices, bringing pragmatic solutions to complex production environments. He has a background in team-level IT administration and telecom systems from earlier roles, giving him strong domain knowledge across Windows domains, networking and telephony. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved release automation in the python-semantic-release project by refactoring artifact uploads and CI workflows to better support custom repositories like GitLab. Known for treating advanced technology as “indistinguishable from magic,” he combines a mathematician’s attention to detail with a practical, production-first mindset.
11 years of coding experience
Abitur, Mathematics, Abitur, Mathematics at Albert Schweizer Gymnasium Eisenhüttenstadt
German, English
Github Skills (9)
github-ci10
release-automation10
githubaction-workflow10
python10
twine10
cicd10
pytest9
git8
documentation8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
python-semantic-release/python-semantic-release
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Automating Releases via SemVer and Commit Message Conventions
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 12 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the automation and release process of the project. They refactored the Twine adapter for artifact repository uploads to use the Twine Python API, allowing for better support of custom repositories like GitLab. They updated GitHub Actions configurations with new variable names, and also modified the documentation to reflect changes to the release process and authentication methods. There were also changes to the project's testing framework.
pythonpython-projectssemantic-versioningversioningsemantic-release
fleXible/python-cometblue_lite
Feb 2020 - Nov 2023
https://pypi.org/project/cometblue-lite/
Contributions:24 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 9 months
litepythonpython3pypi
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