Heiko Zuerker
Principal Architect Cloud & DevOps at Northwestern Mutual
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeiko Zuerker is a Principal Architect in Cloud & DevOps with three decades of IT experience and a 15-year focus on cloud, SRE, and platform engineering across enterprise environments. He has led transformational initiatives—introducing GitOps, everything-as-code, InnerSource, and PaaS adoption—that earned a Red Hat Innovation Award and drove cultural change at Kohl’s. Comfortable from hardware to high-level strategy, he blends hands-on engineering (OpenShift, Terraform, Consul, Vault) with leadership, coaching teams and presenting to executive audiences. Heiko has repeatedly turned operational pain points into automated, resilient platforms and has a track record of launching internal open source projects and orchestration programs. Based in Milwaukee, he pairs deep SAP and infrastructure roots with modern cloud-native practices, never hesitating to roll up his sleeves to deliver results.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Science, GPA 3.99, Associate's Degree, Science, GPA 3.99 at Milwaukee Area Technical CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Business Management, 3.95, Bachelor’s Degree, Business Management, 3.95 at Lakeland College
English, German
Github Skills (59)
syncthing10
filesystem10
peer-to-peer10
go10
adapter10
synchronization10
operator-sdk10
p2p10
operator10
image-analysis9
kubernetes-operator9
specification9
golang9
k8s9
k3d9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Smiley73/hello-world-java
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Copyright (c) 1995, 2008, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Contributions:22 PRs, 14 pushes, 17 branches in 4 years
rightsoracleaffiliatescopyrightreserved
Smiley73/eunomia
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
A GitOps Operator for Kubernetes
Contributions:2 PRs, 165 pushes, 58 branches in 1 year 1 month
cuelanghelmoperatork8skubernetes
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