Matthias Runge
Associate Manager, Engineering
Greater Bremen Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Runge is an engineering leader with 11+ years of experience in cloud-native infrastructure, currently serving as Associate Manager, Engineering at Red Hat and focused on OpenStack metrics and monitoring. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Go, Python, automation, and security-oriented projects—demonstrated by contributions to the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform improving resilience and release automation. A long-time open source maintainer and contributor (Fedora, OpenStack Horizon, OPNFV), he pairs manager-level oversight with pragmatic backend and DevOps instincts. Based in the Greater Bremen area, he blends research-rooted rigor from his Diplom in Informatik with a knack for production reliability and tooling. Outside work he’s an avid cyclist and reader, and his malware-hunting and ML interests reveal a curiosity for defensive and data-driven engineering beyond his day-to-day.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatik, Diplom Informatik at Universität zu Lübeck
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
automation10
automations10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
security9
container9
bash8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:508 reviews, 60 commits, 180 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Matthias contributed to the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform by adding retry mechanisms to various `roxctl` commands, including image scanning, image checking, and deployment checks, enhancing the tool's resilience. They also introduced automation for Operator releases on Red Hat infrastructure, modifying scripts to generate proto sources and manage dependencies. These changes suggest a focus on improving the reliability and automation aspects of the platform.
kubernetes-securitysecuritycontainersk8skubernetes
stackrox/k8s-i-use
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
Source for k8siuse, a site in the style of caniuse that visualizes GVKs and their fields over different versions of the Kubernetes API
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 6 months
caniusekubernetes
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