Harald Koch
Architect at University Health Network
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolHarald Koch is an experienced architect and senior software designer with 25 years in software design, security, cryptography and systems administration, now leading infrastructure automation and container efforts at University Health Network. He has deep expertise in diagnosing and fixing complex, distributed production problems—having led R&D teams for post-release patching and incident response at Hewlett-Packard and in healthcare IT—resulting in consistently high customer satisfaction. His background spans network backbone operations, IPsec/SSL-based VPNs, and identity management, giving him a rare blend of hands-on cryptography and operational resilience. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, Harald combines UNIX systems mastery with pragmatic automation and monitoring to keep critical services running. Based in Toronto, he brings both legacy protocol-level insight and modern container-focused architecture to large, mission-critical environments.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, B.Sc at University of TorontoRoyal St. George's College
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
haraldkoch/helm-charts
Jun 2021 - May 2022
Kubernetes / Helm charts for my applications (and some others that I can't find charts for)
Contributions:1 review, 51 PRs, 83 pushes in 10 months
chartscharthelmhelm-chartskubernetes
haraldkoch/openweathermap-exporter
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
OpenWeatherMap current weather data exporter for Prometheus
Contributions:2 releases, 30 PRs, 39 pushes in 3 years 2 months
exportercurrent-weatherprometheus-exporterprometheusweather-data
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