Michael Gerlach
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Lanes & Planes
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Gerlach is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Leipzig with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient cloud platforms and CI/CD workflows. He has progressed through roles from Linux system administration to senior SRE and platform engineering at companies including commercetools and DKB, now driving reliability at Lanes & Planes. Michael blends deep configuration-management expertise (Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack, Terraform) with container and infrastructure tooling (Docker, Vagrant, Packer, Grafana) to simplify complex systems—true to his motto "It's not easy, it's simple." He has a track record of improving observability, high-availability services, and platform automation for both product and banking environments. Quietly curious, his GitHub tagline "emerge universe" hints at a broad, exploratory approach to systems engineering and continual learning.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor, Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor at Hochschule Merseburg
Github Skills (186)
python10
bitbake10
bash10
terraform10
terraform-module10
ssh10
linux10
hashicorp10
capstone10
ansible10
1password10
revit-api10
graph10
distributions10
keyring10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
n3ph/dotfiles-mac
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:127 commits, 99 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
reservix/ngGirls-DevEnv
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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