Jeremias Werner is a Senior Technical Staff Member and cloud-native architect with over 15 years of experience designing and operating high-scale, low-latency serverless and PaaS offerings at IBM, including Cloud Functions and Code Engine. He blends hands-on engineering, team leadership, and product strategy—shaping roadmaps, driving feature delivery, and implementing security and multi-tenant isolation controls to meet SOC2-level compliance. An active contributor to Apache OpenWhisk, he has improved containerization, Docker compatibility, AppArmor policies, logging, and DNS/testing for a widely used open-source serverless platform. Based in the Greater Kassel Area, he combines deep theoretical computer science training with practical expertise in distributed systems, deployment automation, and operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Theoratical Computer Sience, 1.2, Master's degree, Theoratical Computer Sience, 1.2 at Ilmenau Technical University
Apache OpenWhisk is an open source serverless cloud platform
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
Contributions:18 commits, 116 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeremias made several contributions to the Apache OpenWhisk project, focusing on improving the containerization and deployment aspects of the serverless platform. They addressed Docker compatibility issues, specifically supporting Docker 1.10 and configuring AppArmor security policies for invoker containers. Further contributions included adding logging improvements and configuring DNS settings, in addition to test enhancements.
OpenWhisk is a cloud-first distributed event-based programming service.
Contributions:520 pushes, 42 branches in 4 years 3 months
event-basedserverlesscloudkubernetesmicroservices
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Jeremias Werner - Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM