Karsten Planz
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolKarsten Planz is a Senior Solutions Architect based in Zurich with 14 years of experience designing web, cloud, and mobile systems and a formal M.Sc. in Internet- and Web-based Systems. He combines hands-on engineering with leadership—having led development teams and headed Zurich engineering at Open Web Technology before joining AWS—to translate user-focused design into scalable cloud architectures. Pragmatic and creatively inclined, he has a strong sense for UX and innovation and thrives on adopting emerging technologies. His background spans full-stack and Android development to enterprise cloud consulting, giving him rare end-to-end perspective from device to cloud. Notably, he moved from building Drupal and Android apps in early career stages to shaping cloud strategies at AWS, reflecting both technical depth and strategic growth.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (69)
dotnet9
android-messaging9
cpp9
aws9
php9
android-chat9
java9
image-loader8
javascript8
python8
material-design-icons8
ruby8
chat-sdk8
kotlin8
jetpack-compose8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kplanz/clashing-drupal-projects
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 day
kplanz/bitrise-step-open-vpn
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Bitrise step to establish a VPN connection with the specified OpenVPN server.
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 day
bitrise-stepvpnwireguardopenvpn-serverconnection
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