Summary
Jochen Hayek is a veteran Linux Systems and DevOps engineer with 33+ years of hands-on experience spanning UNIX/Linux administration, systems programming and build/configuration management across finance, defense, energy and enterprise IT. He combines deep scripting and automation skills (shell, Perl, Python, Ruby) with long-standing expertise in XML/XPath/XQuery, CI/CD, artifact and repo management, databases and ETL pipelines. As founding director of Aleph Soft and a frequent contractor, he reliably translates legacy systems and niche protocols into automated, production-grade workflows—everything from Ada-driven device integrations to modern Kubernetes and Bitwarden deployments. Comfortable in both code and operations, he’s repeatedly been the go-to troubleshooter for complex toolchains (Jenkins, JFrog, Atlassian suite) and repo ecosystems. Based in Berlin, he brings institutional memory and a pragmatic, multi-purpose mindset that thrives on solving awkward, cross-domain problems most engineers avoid. An early contributor to compiler/runtime work, he still favors elegant scripting solutions to keep systems resilient and maintainable.
32 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium Laupheim ("Carl Laemmle")
Diplom-Informatiker Computer Science Philosophy Linguistics, Diplom-Informatiker Computer Science Philosophy Linguistics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Wirtschaftsmathematik, Wirtschaftsmathematik at Ulm University