Manuel Rüger
Staff Platform Architect
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Rüger is a Staff Platform Architect in Berlin with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale platform and release engineering systems at Sony Interactive Entertainment. He combines hands-on DevOps and backend development skills—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Gentoo Portage, Kubernetes external-dns, GoBGP and Prometheus components—with leadership across release, platform and engineering management roles. Manuel focuses on modernizing build and CI/CD pipelines, dependency hygiene, and production-grade observability, often improving HTTP APIs, metrics, and logging formats. His contributions show a pragmatic attention to backward compatibility and incremental modernization, from zstd support in Prometheus libraries to CI and linter integrations across projects. Based in Berlin and trained in computer science (MSc, Humboldt-Universität), he brings a systems-minded approach grounded in both infrastructure and low-level package/tooling work. An ironically literal weather-note in his GitHub bio belies a developer who pays close attention to the small operational details that keep distributed systems reliable.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Physik, Physik at Goethe University FrankfurtMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Github Skills (68)
dependency-management10
python10
package-management10
testing10
bash10
build-automation10
haproxy10
monitoring10
markdown10
linux10
dockers10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
external-dns10
yaml10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kube-state-metrics
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 releases, 493 reviews, 146 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Manuel Rüger primarily contributed to the testing and deployment infrastructure of the kube-state-metrics project. His work focused on updating and configuring the end-to-end (e2e) tests, including bumping versions of dependencies like Prometheus and Kubernetes. He also made adjustments to the testing environment, like updating Kind versions and removing legacy configurations, to ensure the continuous integration (CI) pipeline functions properly.
prometheus-exporteragentkubernetes-exporterobservabilityexpose
cloudnativelabs/kube-router
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Kube-router, a turnkey solution for Kubernetes networking.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 releases, 116 reviews, 134 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily focused on enhancing the project's build and deployment infrastructure. They added support for golangci-lint, ensuring code quality. The user updated dependencies related to CNI and Kubernetes, and improved the deployment process. Furthermore, they modified the Travis CI deployment script and docker login configurations.
kubernetes-networkingkuberneteskubernetes-servicedockeripvs
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