Michael Friedrich
Staff Developer Advocate
Greater Nuremberg Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Friedrich is a Staff/Principal Developer Advocate at GitLab with 13 years of experience bridging embedded systems, DevSecOps and emerging Agentic AI adoption. He drives customer success through hands‑on technical leadership, live programming workshops and field enablement while shaping GitLab Duo strategy and developer tooling. Michael combines deep open‑source monitoring and infrastructure roots (Icinga, Prometheus integrations) with practical embedded DevSecOps research, including hardware‑in‑the‑loop scenarios. A prolific community builder, he founded inclusive learning initiatives like everyonecancontribute.cafe and the GitLab Duo Coffee Chat format that became official documentation. He regularly speaks at KubeCon, QCon and Container Days and translates customer feedback into product innovation across CI/CD, RAG and agent workflows. Fluent in a range of languages from COBOL to Rust, he pairs curiosity about legacy systems with modern AI-enabled developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DI (FH) Hardware/Software Systems Engineering, DI (FH) Hardware/Software Systems Engineering at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
English, German, French, austrian
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Github Skills (200)
msgpack10
bug-tracker10
testing10
perl10
interpreter10
icingaweb210
exporter10
http-client10
disposable10
influxdb10
act10
integration-testing10
operator10
cbor10
puppet10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
Icinga/icinga-vagrant
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
Vagrant boxes for Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2, modules, themes and integrations (Graphite, InfluxDB, Elastic, Graylog, etc.)
Contributions:9 releases, 187 PRs, 243 pushes in 10 years 1 month
icingavagrantgraylogelasticinfluxdb
dnsmichi/atasteofaustria
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Sharing the good Austrian things with the world #drageekeksi #coffee #cakes #gin
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 months
golanggincoffeesharingcakes
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