Felix Kunde
Database Engineer
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolFelix Kunde is a Database Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience building and operating spatial and relational data platforms, currently delivering PostgreSQL-as-a-Service on Kubernetes at Zalando. He blends deep PostGIS and spatial-data expertise from academic and industry roles with practical DevOps and cloud-native skills, having contributed backend changes to the well-regarded zalando/postgres-operator project. Felix has led research and product work—founding a spatial analytics group focused on spatio-temporal traffic forecasting with deep learning—and taught PostGIS and ETL workflows at university level. Comfortable across SQL, PL/pgSQL, PostGIS, GeoMesa and big-data tooling, he pairs hands-on database engineering with mentoring and project leadership. A Foss4G enthusiast and PostGIS trainer, he often operates at the intersection of geodata research and production-grade database automation.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformation & Visualization, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformation & Visualization at Universität PotsdamBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Geography, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Geography at Freie Universität Berlin
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
storage10
kubernetes10
databases10
go10
postgresql10
datastore10
kubernetes-pods10
database10
operator9
golang9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/postgres-operator
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer/Administrator
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer/AdministratorContributions:19 releases, 431 reviews, 1403 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Felix's commits primarily focused on modifying the codebase of the `postgres-operator` project, specifically, they made changes to files within the `pkg/` directories. The commits involved updates to the internal structures of the code to reflect organizational changes such as the move of the project from incubator to the Zalando main organization. They also touched on the configuration of the resources, showing an active role in the internal maintenance and evolution of the operator.
golangclustersdatabase-as-a-servicemanaged-servicespostgresql-clusters
MAGDa-BeuthHS/dlsd
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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