Johannes Huning
Systems Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJohannes Huning is a Berlin-based systems engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-performance, distributed services for games, travel, and enterprise ventures. He focuses on delivering customer and business value through lean and agile practices, having led architecture, SRE groundwork, and performance optimization across Kubernetes, Go, Erlang, and large-scale data pipelines. As a former Director of Engineering and longtime senior engineer, he blends hands-on implementation with team mentorship, hiring, and process standardization to reduce complexity and cut maintenance costs. Notably, he introduced Go for performance-critical services and built ETL and analytics platforms handling hundreds of millions of events daily. He markets himself as a freelance distributed systems expert and explicitly avoids Java/Spring projects, reflecting a clear technical preference and pragmatic approach to technology choices.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (unfinished), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) (unfinished), Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (123)
code-generation10
code-generator10
golang10
grpc10
buf10
sql9
protobuf9
kube-bench9
security9
go-git9
segment9
clustering9
protoc9
kubernetes-security9
hyperloglog9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
eigenbot-app/lookup-package-url
Mar 2023 - Sep 2025
GitHub Action that provides a deployment's package URL to other actions.
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
tenjin/rotate-eks-asg
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Rolling Cluster Node Upgrades for AWS EKS
Contributions:4 releases, 24 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
awsk8sasgautoscalingeks
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