Mehrshad Lotfi
DevOps Engineer (Observability) at Optiop GmbH
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolMehrshad Lotfi is a DevOps and Site Reliability engineer with 11 years of experience, currently focused on observability and scalable monitoring platforms in Frankfurt. He designs and operates multi-cluster observability stacks—Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and distributed Loki ingesting terabytes of logs daily—and has hands-on experience integrating SSO, Ceph storage on Kubernetes, and SNMP-based network telemetry. His background spans research roles at Max Planck and ETH Zurich and production work in financial market systems, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor and enterprise-grade delivery. Known as a monitoring enthusiast and instructor, he translates complex systems into maintainable, observable infrastructure and often works across the full stack from C++ real-time components to cloud-native observability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Max Planck SocietyBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, 17.08, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, 17.08 at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
countdown10
observability10
dashboard10
visualization10
mysql10
charts10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
countdown-timer10
go10
prometheus10
helm10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
optiop/monitoring-workshop
May 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:19 reviews, 24 PRs, 35 pushes in 8 months
mehr74/pacman
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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