Max Werner
Co-Owner & Managing Director at Coppersoft
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolMax Werner is a software engineer and technology purist with two decades of industry experience and a 14-year focus on cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystems. As Co-Owner and Managing Director at Coppersoft and leader at Associmates, he builds and operates critical software for European electricity companies, specializing in day‑2 operations for grid-stabilizing applications. A core maintainer on Flux CD and prolific contributor to prominent GitOps projects, he has driven OCI Helm support, hardened controllers against nil-pointer failures, and improved bootstrap and authentication flows across fluxcd repositories. His background includes senior engineering and team leadership roles at Weaveworks and D2iQ, where he delivered developer-friendly GitOps tooling and multi-cluster management at scale. Based in Hamburg, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps craftsmanship with product-minded leadership and a habit of tinkering with electronics and free software. Notably, his open-source fixes and features address subtle operational gaps that directly improve reliability in production Kubernetes deployments.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied SciencesMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (44)
kubernetes10
docker10
tool-kit10
health-check10
kustomize10
user-authentication10
authentication10
bash10
continuous-delivery10
dockers10
cicd10
gitops10
occi10
script10
go10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/kubefed
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Kubernetes Cluster Federation
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:102 reviews, 19 commits, 12 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on improving the deployment and build scripts for the Kubernetes Cluster Federation project. They updated the scripts to work with newer versions of `kind`, a tool for running Kubernetes locally, and also added functionality to avoid joining the host cluster to itself during deployment. Additionally, the user made changes to reduce the verbosity of the scripts and improved the output messages for a better user experience. This work involved modifying the deployment process and integrating with tools like `kubectl` and Helm.
kubernetes-clusterk8s-sig-multiclusterfederated-clusters
fluxcd/source-controller
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
The GitOps Toolkit source management component
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:132 reviews, 28 commits, 73 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Max contributed to the source-controller project by fixing a critical nil pointer dereference issue related to HelmRepository artifacts. They also implemented support for OCI Helm repositories, including authentication via Docker config files and enabling charts from OCI registries. Furthermore, the user made improvements in logging, formatting, and refactoring code. Their work included improvements to the HelmChart controller, OCI repository validation, and the addition of system certificates.
gitopsgitops-toolkit
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