Matthias Rampke
Distinguished Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Rampke is a distinguished software engineer with 16 years of experience building reliable, cost-efficient internal platforms for observability, compute, and databases. Based in Berlin, he combines deep SRE/DevOps and systems expertise with pragmatic engineering leadership, having designed and operated Prometheus, Kubernetes, MySQL, Vitess and Cassandra deployments at scale. He bootstrapped Database Reliability Engineering at SoundCloud, drove multi-region expansion and major cost savings, and later led infrastructure and FinOps integration work at Chronosphere during an acquisition. An active open-source contributor, Matthias has materially improved Prometheus core projects (including prometheus-operator and exporters), raising test coverage, CI robustness, and API modularity. He believes the hardest problems are organizational rather than technical, and routinely translates that view into platforms and processes that reduce toil and align cross-functional stakeholders. His background in physics informs a methodical, measurement-driven approach to complex systems engineering.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics at Leipzig UniversityPhysics, Physics at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (28)
procfs10
kubernetes10
statsd10
testing10
sonarlint10
java10
javas10
go10
prometheus10
sysfs10
sys10
kubernetes-pods10
refactoring10
mockito10
metric10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/statsd_exporter
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
StatsD to Prometheus metrics exporter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 releases, 62 reviews, 348 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthias contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the statsd_exporter, a StatsD to Prometheus metrics exporter. They focused on enhancing the codebase's robustness and functionality, including improvements to metric handling. Several commits addressed infrastructural aspects, such as adapting the testing environment for IPv4 compatibility. The user also implemented the addition of comprehensive telemetry to increase observability and improve the project's overall release readiness.
exporterprometheus-exportermetrics-exporterstatsd-metricsprometheus-metrics-exporter
prometheus/cloudwatch_exporter
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Metrics exporter for Amazon AWS CloudWatch
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 41 reviews, 122 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the `cloudwatch_exporter` project by refactoring and improving existing code. They focused on adhering to code quality standards by addressing SonarLint warnings related to copy constructors, type parameters, superfluous throws, and collapsible if statements. The user also implemented best practices by using try-with-resources and isEmpty() where appropriate, enhancing the overall maintainability and readability of the codebase. They also updated the mockito dependency for compatibility with JDK 17 and cleaned up Servlet lint warnings.
exporterprometheus-exporteramazonmetrics-exporteramazon-aws
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