Ingmar Krusch is a senior engineering executive and fractional CTO with over two decades of product development experience and 13 years in senior tech leadership, currently serving as SVP Engineering at HelloFresh in Berlin. He has a strong track record scaling engineering organizations from handfuls to ~250 people, leading AWS migrations, core-banking platform builds, and AI/ML adoption across fintech and real-estate marketplaces. Known for aligning technical strategy with business goals, he has represented tech in multiple funding rounds (Series B–F) and steered teams through mergers, rapid growth, layoffs and even wartime continuity. A hands-on Java/Linux engineer and contributor to notable open-source projects like Netflix’s SimianArmy, he blends deep technical expertise with people-first leadership and advisory work across startups and VCs.
Tools for keeping your cloud operating in top form. Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:52 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ingmar primarily contributed to integrating VSphere (VMWare) functionality into the existing Simian Army tools. Their work included developing a new `IS24Client` class and related context classes to interact with a VMWare environment, enabling instance termination and group description operations. Subsequent commits involved refactoring and generalizing client loading to support different client implementations, and ultimately moving toward a VSphere implementation with a termination strategy.
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ingmar primarily contributed to the website code for the devopsdays website. Their commits indicate a focus on updating event information, including the status of sponsorships, registration, and program details. The user also made several updates to the website content and corrected typos, demonstrating a role in maintaining and enhancing the site's information.
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