Summary
Heiko Borchers is a Principal Consultant and cloud solution architect based in Düsseldorf with a decade of experience designing and migrating assets to AWS and operating resilient cloud-native platforms. Heiko combines hands-on SRE and DevOps practice—Ansible, GitLab, Docker—with leadership roles at Reply/Storm Reply and freelance cloud architecture work, guiding teams through large migrations. He has a practical systems background from university system administration to leading SRE streams, and he still writes and reports as a freelance journalist, which sharpens his ability to explain complex technical trade-offs. Known for speaking at conferences about real projects and the mistakes that taught him the most, he blends technical depth with candid communication. An avid car enthusiast who literally "puts cars and cloud together," he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary perspective to architecture and operations.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dropped out Computer Science, Dropped out Computer Science at The University of Bonn
Fachinformatiker Systemintegration (2018), Fachinformatiker Systemintegration (2018) at University of Düsseldorf
English, Spanish, German, English