Manuel Zapf
Principal Solution Architect at codecentric AG
Meerbusch, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarManuel Zapf is a Principal Solution Architect based in Meerbusch, Germany, with 11 years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native infrastructure and application solutions. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps engineering—evidenced by notable contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Traefik and Traefik Mesh—with product and solution leadership roles at Traefik Labs, solo.io, and codecentric. Manuel has moved between product management and architecture, giving him a rare perspective that connects developer experience, operational reliability, and strategic product direction. His contributions to service mesh and Kubernetes providers (e.g., protocol handling, SMI/TCP support, CoreDNS checks) show deep operational insight into production deployments beyond typical feature work.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
docker10
reverse-proxy10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
traefik10
back-end-development9
golang9
backend9
load-balancer8
yaml8
etcd8
go-testing8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
traefik/traefik
Jul 2018 - Jan 2022
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:88 reviews, 18 commits, 56 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the Kubernetes provider, enhancing its functionality and fixing bugs. They added the ability to set the protocol, such as `h2c`, and implemented a default path for routing in the ingress. The user also improved the Rancher provider, ensuring compatibility with the web UI and made changes to the consul catalog.
cloud-nativeproxymicroservicedockermarathon
traefik/mesh
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Traefik Mesh - Simpler Service Mesh
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 23 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the backend and infrastructure aspects of Traefik Mesh. They added features like ignoring namespaces and improved SMI (Service Mesh Interface) support for TCP. Furthermore, they implemented checks related to the CoreDNS configuration, demonstrating an understanding of deployment and configuration within the mesh environment. The changes involved modifications across various files, including provider, controller, and configuration files, as well as testing.
service-meshtraefikmeshservice-mesh-interfacetraefik-mesh
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