Summary
Jürgen Brüder is a pragmatic senior IT consultant and trainer with 11+ years helping large enterprises in telecom, finance, logistics and energy design cloud-native infrastructure that scales without unnecessary complexity. A former CTO and co-founder who exited an OCR-based SaaS, he blends startup-born pragmatism with deep operational experience in Terraform, Vault, Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments. He was the first IBM HashiCorp Authorized Instructor for Vault and Terraform in DACH and has delivered 150+ courses, favoring durable mental models over tool fetishism. Long-term engagements—12 years with a major European telecom and multi-year partnerships with banks and maritime operators—showcase his emphasis on maintainability and real-world validation. He runs a busy homelab (K3s, FluxCD, Prometheus) to break and fix recommendations before prescribing them, and off-hours he channels long-term commitment as founder and guitarist of a melodic death metal band.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing.(FH), Software Development, Informationmanagement, Dipl.-Ing.(FH), Software Development, Informationmanagement at FH Joanneum
German, English, French