Govinda Fichtner
Chief Technology Officer at Quanos
Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarGovinda Fichtner is a pragmatic, servant-leader CTO who has spent 15+ years scaling engineering organizations and products across automotive, cloud, industrial, and financial domains, currently shaping Quanos’ cloud-native and AI-infused platform for technical documentation. He has a track record rescuing and managing €55M+ initiatives and budgets while architecting data platforms that process billions of IoT and enterprise data points and €1B+ in transactions annually. Comfortable moving between hands-on automation (contributions to the HypriotOS Raspberry Pi image build and CI/CD tooling) and executive strategy, he blends deep product-domain knowledge with multi-cloud and distributed-team leadership. Known for early adoption of virtualization, containers, and AI workflows, he focuses on embedding AI as a practical force multiplier in regulated, reliability-sensitive environments. Based in Bamberg, Germany, he routinely tackles the tricky challenge of modernizing mature, acquired product portfolios without disrupting customer trust.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
rspec10
automation10
bash10
docker10
automations10
dockers10
cicd10
linux9
raspberry-pi9
vagrant8
testing6
git4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hypriot/image-builder-rpi
Jan 2016 - May 2016
SD card image for Raspberry Pi with Docker: HypriotOS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:9 releases, 76 commits, 46 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Govinda primarily focused on building and automating the image build process for the HypriotOS project. Their contributions included setting up build environments within Docker containers, creating scripts to generate SD card images, and integrating testing with tools like RSpec. They also implemented and refined CI/CD configurations, addressed permission issues, and optimized the build process, incorporating features like image zipping. This involved extensive work with build scripts and testing infrastructure.
sd-card-imageraspberry-pivagrantsd-carddocker-machine
hypriot/device-init
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 45 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 4 months
initializedefinedon-device
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