Hannes Hörl
Software Engineer at Mechanical Orchard
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolHannes Hörl is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling from Vienna. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes release engineering, test frameworks and DevOps automation, contributing to high-profile projects such as kubectl and Kubernetes release tooling. At VMware Tanzu and Pivotal he helped bring platform products to production across multiple IaaS providers and led release and automation efforts that improved reliability and developer workflows. More recently he worked on CI/CD and runner infrastructure at GitLab and now continues to apply his backend and DevOps skills at Mechanical Orchard. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic: he blends system-level troubleshooting with robust test and release practices, and has a knack for surfacing flaky/integration issues by improving test harnesses. His background in mechatronics and system administration gives him a practical, cross-disciplinary approach to complex platform problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering / Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering / Mechatronics at HTL SaalfeldenSoftware Development & Knowledge Management, Software Development & Knowledge Management at Technische Universität Graz
German, English
Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
postgresql10
scripting10
testing10
node-postgres10
bash10
test-framework10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
go10
github-api10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/kubeadm-dind-cluster
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
[EOL] A Kubernetes multi-node test cluster based on kubeadm
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 42 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Hannes primarily focused on improving the testing and build processes of the kubeadm-dind-cluster repository. Their contributions included fixing context handling, ensuring tests for multiple instances passed, and adapting tests to use different APIServer ports. Additionally, they updated the shell scripts, including the fixed versions for stable and various Kubernetes versions. The user also made improvements to the subnet and port configuration logic, demonstrating a focus on the project's infrastructure and build environment.
multi-nodetestingdeveloper-toolseolkubernetes
kubernetes/release
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Release infrastructure for Kubernetes and related components
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:102 commits, 43 PRs, 341 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Hannes contributed to the release infrastructure for Kubernetes. Their commits focused on modifying and enhancing scripts related to release processes, including package installation, issue handling, and creating issues on GitHub related to the publishing bot. They also worked on integrating tests within the release process and configuring the build system. The user's work directly impacted the automation and management of Kubernetes releases.
kubernetesrelease-infrastructureinfrastructure
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