Jan Mußler
Head Of Engineering - Cloud Platform Services
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Mußler is a Head of Engineering for Cloud Platform Services at Zalando with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms. He blends hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Postgres, and developer experience with leadership responsibilities driving platform reliability and team effectiveness. At Zalando he remains an active Senior Principal Engineer contributor to notable open-source work such as the postgres-operator, improving cluster management, testing robustness, and observability. Based in Berlin and educated at RWTH Aachen, he pairs rigorous engineering foundations with pragmatic solutions for production systems. Colleagues describe him as a caring technical leader who balances strategic platform vision with attention to developer ergonomics and operational detail.
13 years of coding experience
Diplom, Diplom at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (16)
golang10
operator10
kubernetes10
go10
postgresql10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
database9
testing9
admin9
database-administration9
databases9
yaml8
cicd8
dockers7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/postgres-operator
May 2017 - Dec 2022
Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:94 reviews, 231 commits, 87 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the `postgres-operator` project by enhancing its functionality and improving the user experience. Their work includes modifying the database name regular expression, adding a superuser toggle for team members, and modifying logging messages for improved clarity. Furthermore, the user improved end-to-end tests by implementing proper eventual asserts and timeouts, alongside fixing string encoding and other cosmetic changes. These contributions demonstrate a focus on both the core functionality of the operator and the quality of its testing and logging.
golangclustersdatabase-as-a-servicemanaged-servicespostgresql-clusters
zalando-zmon/zmon-data-service
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
Receiving end of new worker to push data across DC boundaries
Contributions:216 commits, 50 PRs, 189 pushes in 2 years 7 months
boundariesworkerpush
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