Jack Henschel
Senior Consultant at Red Hat
Switzerland
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Top SchoolJack Henschel is a Senior Consultant with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently based in Switzerland and working at Red Hat. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation—evidenced by platform administration at CERN and contributions to the widely used puppetlabs-docker module that improved Docker swarm service configuration. His background spans cloud engineering, autoscaling, monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and server automation across organizations from research labs to telecoms. Jack pairs academic training in security and cloud computing (Aalto, EURECOM) with practical delivery: developing a short URL service for CERN and migrating legacy HA clusters to container-based stacks. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, well-documented solutions that bridge developer workflows and production reliability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Security and Cloud Computing, Master of Science - MS, Security and Cloud Computing at Aalto UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information and Communication Technology at University of Erlangen-NurembergSecurity and Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Security and Cloud Computing, Computer Science at EURECOM
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Github Skills (15)
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puppeteer10
docker10
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dockers10
cicd8
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python-modules7
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html6
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-docker
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
The Puppet Docker repository
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the `puppetlabs/puppetlabs-docker` repository by enhancing the functionality of the Puppet module for managing Docker services. They added features like the ability to specify read-only images, configure filesystem mounts, and define network settings for Docker swarm services. Additionally, they fixed issues related to handling multiple published ports in service configurations, improving the module's usability and configuration options.
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jacksgt/lambda-layer-tool
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Build and publish AWS Lambda layers defined in YAML
Contributions:18 commits, 5 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year
lambdapublishlambda-layersdefinedlambda-functions
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