Kris Budde
Product Owner - STACKIT Edge Cloud at Schwarz Digits
Merzig, Saarland, Germany
Summary
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RockstarKris Budde is a product-oriented engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud and edge platforms, now leading STACKIT Edge Cloud at Schwarz Digits from Germany. He combines hands-on backend and SRE chops—evident from open-source contributions like enhancing the rabbitmq_exporter and adding caching and Rancher integration to kubeswitch—with product ownership and team leadership across German Edge Cloud and WIIT. Kris has a track record of moving between hands-on implementation and strategic direction, improving observability, performance, and developer workflows. Based in Merzig, he brings practical DevOps sensibilities to product decisions and a habit of refactoring for clarity and maintainability that surfaces in both code and organization.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
rabbitmq10
caching10
kubernetes10
exports10
go10
prometheus10
rancher10
backend10
back-end-development10
exporter10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
filesystem9
file-management9
dockers3
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
kbudde/rabbitmq_exporter
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
Prometheus exporter for RabbitMQ
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 3 reviews, 284 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily focused on adding and modifying queue statistics, including their size and message counts within the RabbitMQ exporter. Their contributions involved modifying the `main.go` and `exporter.go` files to incorporate additional metrics related to queue length, consumers, and message bytes. The user also appears to have refactored the codebase by splitting it into separate files for improved organization and implemented new settings for log formatting.
exportergolangprometheus-exporterprometheusrabbitmq
danielfoehrKn/kubeswitch
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
The kubectx for operators.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kris contributed to the development of the `kubeswitch` tool, focusing on integrating the Rancher store functionality for fetching kubeconfigs. They also added features for caching kubeconfigs using both in-memory and filesystem-based storage mechanisms. The user's commits show modifications to the core store implementation, configuration options, and the introduction of a caching layer, demonstrating expertise in backend and potentially DevOps related aspects. They also addressed issues and improved performance within the store implementations.
kubeconfigkubectlkuberneteskubectxkubecontext
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