Kai Seidler
Head Of BPI Architecture & Design Competence at ASML
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKai Seidler is a seasoned technology leader and architect with over 25 years of experience and a strong track record of scaling engineering and platform capabilities across global organisations. Best known as the creator of XAMPP and co-founder of Apache Friends, he helped standardise local web development environments used by millions of engineers. Currently Head of BPI Architecture & Design Competence at ASML, he has held senior roles across software, cloud platform and infrastructure at Wayfair, HERE, Nokia and The Adecco Group. Kai blends hands-on systems engineering and release expertise with strategic leadership, driving transformation from developer tooling to enterprise backend platforms. Based in Berlin, he pairs academic training in computer science with a long history of open-source advocacy and community-building. An amateur photographer and self-described "Time Traveller," he brings a curious, product-minded perspective to solving large-scale engineering problems.
16 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatiker (M. Sc. equivalent) Computer Science, Diplom Informatiker (M. Sc. equivalent) Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (16)
php10
phpmyadmin10
mysql10
mariadb10
database10
gocd8
continuous-testing7
bitrise7
continuous-integration6
continuous-delivery5
continuous-deployment5
docker4
cd4
devops3
kubernetes3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
May 2010 - May 2010
A web interface for MySQL and MariaDB
Contributions:122 commits in 1 day
mysqlweb-interfaceweb-appphpdatabase
gocd/gocd
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
GoCD - Continuous Delivery server main repository
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
continuous-deploymentcontinuous-testinggocddevopscontinuous
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