Max Goltzsche
Staff Software Engineer at CloudBees
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMax Goltzsche is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years building cloud-native systems, specializing in Go, Kubernetes, microservices, REST APIs and databases. He designs and ships developer and CI/CD tooling—authoring Kubernetes-native preview operators at CloudBees and contributing to Jenkins X to streamline automated pipelines and log streaming. Comfortable across backend stacks (Java, Kotlin, Golang) and infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana, AWS, containerization), he combines pragmatic perfectionism with hands-on DevOps skills. An active open-source contributor, his work ranges from music library tooling to improving CI UX and import workflows, reflecting an appetite for both developer experience and automation. He often bridges product and platform concerns, turning complex GitOps/ChatOps ideas into production-ready operators and APIs.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Media Informatics, 1.57, Bachelor's degree, Media Informatics, 1.57 at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin (formerly Technische Fachhochschule Berlin)
German, English
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
python10
tekton10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
pipeline10
devops10
music10
cli10
git-repository9
git9
dockers9
docker9
github-repos9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
beetbox/beets
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 11 PRs, 41 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the `smartplaylist` plugin, adding features like the ability to export item fields and providing CLI options for configuration. They refactored the plugin to support different output formats (m3u and extm3u) and implemented a URI format option for generating item URLs. Additionally, the user exposed several configurations as CLI options, enhancing the plugin's flexibility and user control.
clipythonmusicbrainztaggermusic
jenkins-x/jx
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kubernetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Cloud Native pipelines from Tekton
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 32 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Max's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Jenkins X environment, specifically the UI and import functionalities. They implemented features like opening the Jenkins X UI in a browser and adding the pipeline bot as a collaborator during repository import. Furthermore, they refactored build logging to improve efficiency by streaming log lines and integrating them with long-term storage, demonstrating a strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation. Several commits addressed bugs and inefficiencies, such as fixing application reimport issues.
tektonopenshiftrolloutcontinuous-integrationjenkins
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