Martin Höfling
Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at Google
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMartin Höfling is a Senior Engineering Manager in Site Reliability Engineering at Google with 14 years of experience bridging rigorous scientific training and large-scale production reliability. He progressed through technical program and engineering management roles at Google after a decade consulting on cloud-native and DevOps practices, bringing deep operational and program delivery expertise. Trained as a physicist with a summa cum laude PhD, he applies quantitative rigor and simulation-informed thinking to infrastructure problems and SRE strategy. An active contributor to notable open-source projects such as Skaffold and gopass, he improves developer workflows for Kubernetes and secure tooling while also cleaning up schemas and APIs. Based in Bavaria, Germany, he combines hands-on engineering chops with leadership in cross-functional program execution and a penchant for turning complex research-grade methods into practical, production-ready solutions.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
kaniko10
json-api10
dockers10
security10
go10
password-manager10
kubernetes-pods10
1password10
password-vault10
testing9
git9
developer-tools9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gopasspw/gopass
Sep 2017 - Apr 2022
The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 44 commits, 48 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on implementing and extending the JSON API for the gopass password manager, adding functionality for creating new secrets, retrieving data, and copying entries to the clipboard. These changes involved modifying existing code, adding new message types, and implementing the corresponding logic to handle these API requests. The user also refactored internal components and tests.
unixgpgkeyringpassword-generator1password
GoogleContainerTools/skaffold
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on improving the Kubernetes development experience within the Skaffold project. Their commits included updating schema versions, adding features for Kaniko cache configuration, and fixing related testing issues. They also made contributions to import order and overall code cleanup within the build and schema files.
containershelmrepeatabledockerdeveloper-tools
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