Jürgen Walter
Summary
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SeniorJürgen Walter is an engineering manager and former senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, highly observable and secure B2B services at SAP. He led petabyte-scale ingestion and OpenTelemetry adoption across multiple BTP observability services, improved Kafka stability and multi-AZ resilience, and drove enterprise certifications including ISO27001 and SOC 1&2. With a PhD in computer science and a background in automated performance engineering, he combines deep research-informed thinking with hands-on SRE and DevOps practice. He excels at stakeholder engagement, forming SRE teams and turning observability insights into measurable improvements in live-site stability. Based in Walldorf, Germany, Jürgen is comfortable navigating both academic and enterprise environments and often uncovers operational blind spots before they become incidents. His profile reflects a rare blend of rigorous academic training and large-scale production experience across security, compliance, and reliability.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (59)
opensearch10
observability10
cloud-foundry10
sap10
analytics10
java10
visualization9
scala9
kafka9
nodejs9
logging9
apache-kafka9
petri-net8
big-data8
cds8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SAP-docs/btp-cloud-logging
Jan 2024 - Nov 2025
Markdown source for the SAP Cloud Logging service documentation. Enables feedback and contributions to improve the documentation.
Contributions:24 reviews, 19 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 9 months
loggingmarkdownsapopen-documentation-initiativesource-in-ditacms
DescartesResearch/QPME
May 2013 - Apr 2014
QPME : Queueing Petri-net Modeling Environment
Contributions:184 commits in 11 months
petri-netqueuing
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