Malte Kiefer
Director Of Infrastruktur at Aleph Alpha
Neudrossenfeld, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMalte Kiefer is an infrastructure leader with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating resilient datacenter and cloud platforms for AI workloads, now serving as Director of Infrastruktur at Aleph Alpha. He has led multi-site GPU cluster deployments, datacenter modernizations, and security programs (ISO 27001, TISAX) while driving migrations, DCIM adoption, and automation with Terraform and Ansible. His background includes 13 years of reliability-first military IT operations, where he developed hybrid mobile command-center solutions and rigorous disaster recovery practices. Malte pairs vendor and budget management with a developer mindset—contributing backend improvements to open-source projects like SparkleShare to tighten security and user experience. Based in Bavaria, he focuses on scalable, secure infrastructure that enables rapid AI research and enterprise adoption.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Betriebsinformatiker (HWK), Betriebsinformatiker (HWK) at Handwerkskammer Bayern
Github Skills (7)
certificate10
cert10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
cross-platform9
git8
version-control8
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
hbons/SparkleShare
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
Share and collaborate by syncing with any Git repository instantly. Linux, macOS, and Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 10 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Malte primarily focused on enhancing the SparkleShare application's avatar functionality by integrating support for libravatar and managing avatar certificate validation. They updated the avatar retrieval logic, adjusted code to accommodate different avatar providers, and implemented configurations. Additionally, the user modified the application to check for and update the Gravatar certificate fingerprint. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving user experience and ensuring the secure retrieval of user avatars.
linuxmacoswindowssyncversion-control
GroundApps/ShoppingList_Backend
Aug 2015 - Jun 2016
Simple Centralized Shoppinglist - php backend
Contributions:86 commits in 9 months
backendphp
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