Michael Hardege
Cloud & Security Engineer at GEMA
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Hardege is a Cloud & Security Engineer based in Berlin with over two decades of experience in DevOps, system engineering, and IT operations, and seven years focused on senior reliability roles. He specializes in Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana, designing highly available, scalable infrastructures and pragmatic observability solutions across EKS, RDS, and EC2. Michael has driven SRE and DevOps practices at major media organizations like Axel Springer and BILD, combining hands-on automation with security-conscious operations. Known for turning monitoring insights into actionable reliability improvements, he emphasizes process automation and long-term stability over short-term fixes. Continuously learning and experimenting, he brings a systems-level perspective that balances engineering rigor with operational pragmatism.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
IT Fachinformatiker Systemintegration Informatik, IT Fachinformatiker Systemintegration Informatik at Fube GmbH – Fachinformatiker Systemintegration
English, Russian, German, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
helm9
charts9
prometheus9
kubernetes8
deprecated8
aws6
cli6
golang5
coreos4
systemd2
linux1
kubernetes-operator1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
prometheus-community/helm-charts
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Prometheus community Helm charts
Contributions:2 reviews in 5 days
helmprometheuschartshelm-chartskubernetes
rebuy-de/aws-nuke
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources.
Contributions:3 comments, 4 issues in 6 days
awsgolangcli
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