Gerrit Gogel
Senior Consultant at Exxeta
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGerrit Gogel is a Senior Consultant and DevOps specialist with 10 years of experience designing secure, compliant internal developer platforms for regulated banking environments. He architects GitOps-first, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms using Argo CD, Terraform/Crossplane, and centralized observability stacks to improve reliability, auditability, and delivery speed. A Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Boğaziçi University graduate, he blends strong academic foundations with hands-on delivery across cloud, identity, and migration projects. Gerrit has practical experience migrating teams from push pipelines to pull-based controller-driven CD and embedding DevSecOps guardrails to meet stringent compliance requirements. Beyond consulting, he contributes to open-source media tooling—improving hardware-accelerated video encoding and VAAPI transcoding in the widely used Emby Server—illustrating an eye for performance-critical backend work. Based in Hanover, he combines platform-level strategy with low-level engineering detail, from observability dashboards to codec internals.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
Github Skills (7)
video-encoding10
ffmpeg10
hardware-acceleration10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
vaapi9
streaming8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
MediaBrowser/Emby
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gerrit primarily focused on enhancing Emby Server's video encoding capabilities. Their work included adding and adjusting hardware-accelerated encoders (specifically HEVC and NVENC), modifying codec naming conventions, and enabling deinterlacing for VAAPI transcoding. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue with the handling of TVHeadend channel icons. These changes indicate an involvement in optimizing video processing and compatibility within the Emby ecosystem.
emby-serverembymedia-server
ggogel/webvowl-containerized
Dec 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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