Michael Ernst
Software Engineer SRE at Google
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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SeniorMichael Ernst is a software engineer and SRE with 11 years of experience building microservices and platform tooling from Munich, currently working at Google after contributing to Sixt’s SRE-driven platform evolution. He combines hands-on coding with a steady-improvement philosophy, focusing on libraries and infrastructure that help teams move systems in new directions. His background includes web development leadership and early full-stack engineering roles, giving him a practical perspective on both team coordination and production reliability. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions, he bridges service design and operational excellence to reduce toil and increase developer velocity. Based in Bavaria, he brings a disciplined, improvement-oriented mindset to large-scale cloud and site reliability challenges.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (99)
programming-language10
limiting10
instrumentation10
interpreter10
runc10
micro10
microservices10
trace10
podman10
linux10
pods10
golang10
sensor10
rpc10
go10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mier85/installer
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
golangpackage-installerinstallerlinuxgo-packages
mier85/go-sensor
Feb 2017 - Sep 2022
Instana Golang sensor and OpenTracing tracer
Contributions:11 pushes, 8 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 8 months
golangtracingtracertracesensor
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