Hans Knecht
Principal Cloud Engineer at Mission Lane
Hampton Roads, Virginia Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolHans Knecht is a Principal Cloud Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience architecting and automating AWS and GCP environments to scale, secure, and save millions in operating costs. He blends SRE, platform engineering, and DevSecOps—building CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery (Flagger), centralized logging, and automated security checks across compliance regimes like PCI, HIPAA, ITAR, and NIST. At Mission Lane and Capital One he drove multi-tenant re-architectures, Helm chart standardization, and tooling (Istio, Prometheus, k6 operator) that sped deployments and reduced toil for developers. A frequent open-source contributor, he’s a significant maintainer on the grafana k6-operator and has deep practical experience refactoring operators, Istio integration, and observability stacks. Based in Hampton Roads, he pairs technical leadership and incident command with a history of turning audit findings into automated governance and measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Cyber Security and Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cyber Security and Information Assurance at Western Governors University
Swedish, English
Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
metricbeat10
kubernetes-operator10
filebeat10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
performance-monitor9
performance-analytics9
dockers9
performance-measurement9
docker9
heartbeat9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/k6-operator
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
An operator for running distributed k6 tests.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 20 commits, 25 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Hans primarily focused on refactoring the k6-operator code base, standardizing naming conventions, and adding features like custom annotations and labels. They made significant changes to the `runner.go`, `starter.go`, and `k6_types.go` files, indicating involvement in core operator logic. Furthermore, the user integrated Istio support by adding environment variables and modifying the container commands. Their work also includes adding resource limits and service account support within the operator.
kubernetes-operatorsload-testingtestingoperatorperformance
sadsfae/ansible-elk
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
:bar_chart: Ansible playbook for setting up an ELK/EFK stack and clients.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:40 commits, 22 PRs, 54 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hans's contributions primarily revolve around configuring and modifying Ansible playbooks for an ELK/EFK stack. They focused on adapting the Beats configurations (Filebeat, Metricbeat, Heartbeat, and Packetbeat) to function correctly within the infrastructure, including setting up Logstash outputs and specifying file paths. Further work involved establishing the appropriate settings for the curator tool and integrating those configurations. The user centralized the elastic.co repo installation to the ELK client role, streamlining the setup process.
centosrhelchartelksetting
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