Henrik Gerdes
DevOps Engineer Consultant at ARES Consulting GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolHenrik Gerdes is a DevOps Engineer Consultant based in Hamburg with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems, particularly on AWS and Kubernetes. He has driven DevOps adoption across microservice environments and currently consults at ARES Consulting, bringing practical expertise from both industry and academic research roles. Henrik contributes to notable open-source projects like Helm, where he integrated Gateway API support for httproute templates—demonstrating a focus on production-ready Kubernetes packaging. Equally comfortable writing automation as he is refining CI/CD and infrastructure, he pairs practical engineering with clear documentation and testing improvements. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns distributed systems research insights into reliable operational practices.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at University of Osnabrueck
Github Skills (16)
aws-apigateway10
kubernetes10
ca-api-gateway10
amazon-api-gateway10
go10
helm10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
charting10
charts10
cpp-templates9
html-template9
python-templates9
yaml9
apptemplates9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
helm/helm
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
The Kubernetes Package Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 8 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Henrik primarily contributed to the Helm package manager by adding and modifying chart templates related to the Gateway API. Their work involved introducing the `httproute.yaml` file and associated configurations, including annotations, hostnames, and rules, to expose services via the Gateway API. They corrected unit test expectations related to the number of template files and refined documentation to enhance usability. This focused on integrating Kubernetes' Gateway API with Helm charts.
chartscharthelmpackage-managerkubernetes
hegerdes/ReddVid
Dec 2021 - Jun 2024
A frontend/backend mono combo to download reddit videos
Contributions:2 PRs, 77 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 6 months
flasknuxtpythonredditvue
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