Manuel Stößel
Chief Platform Engineer
Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Stößel is a Chief Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience designing cloud-native platforms that boost developer autonomy and operational resilience. He has led platform and open sovereign cloud architecture efforts at Capgemini and T‑Systems, blending hands-on Kubernetes and cloud orchestration expertise with strategic product thinking. His background includes system architecture and technical leadership at Kubermatic and roles building Kubernetes teams and DevOps practices at enterprise organizations like Deutsche Bahn and CTS Eventim. Manuel’s career path—from Linux system administration and university research support to leading platform strategy—gives him a pragmatic, infrastructure-first perspective on scalable developer platforms. Based in Lower Saxony, Germany, he pairs deep technical fluency with a track record of translating regulatory and sovereign-cloud requirements into production-ready architectures. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prioritizes autonomy, reliability, and practical simplicity in complex cloud environments.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Informatik, Informatik at Universität LeipzigCivil Engineering, Civil Engineering at Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig (FH)Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
German, English, French
Github Skills (39)
monitoring9
networking9
security9
k8s9
kernel9
api8
cni8
bpf8
observability8
kubernetes8
ebpf8
der7
kubernetes-cluster7
kubernetes-networking7
kubernetes-deployment7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ManuStoessel/kubernetes-from-zero-to-hero
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
ManuStoessel/k8c-cli
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:42 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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