Michael Sailer is a versatile Cloud Architect and DevOps-focused software developer with 13+ years of experience delivering cloud-native systems and automation across AWS, Azure, GCP and private Kubernetes environments. Comfortable shipping in Rust, Go and Python, he blends low-level backend work (including notable contributions to the pyload open-source download manager) with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and secure production practices. As a freelance consultant and former in-house architect at EnBW, he has led Kubernetes migrations, IaC implementations (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) and enterprise CI/CD pipelines while advising on ML and AI integrations. Known for pragmatic tooling choices—Jenkins, GitLab CI, Drone, Ansible—and scaling observability and backup strategies, he routinely turns complex operational requirements into repeatable delivery patterns. Based in Jockgrim, Germany, he pairs engineering depth with a product-minded drive to automate and streamline the whole development lifecycle.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Informatik at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
The free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:39 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to updating and fixing plugins for various download hosters within the pyload project, a download manager written in Python. Their work involved modifying existing plugins to ensure compatibility and functionality, including adding features like captcha bypass. The user also added a new crypter plugin and made improvements to existing ones, demonstrating a focus on the core functionality of the download manager. These changes directly improved the application's ability to download files from various hosting services.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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Michael Sailer - Cloud Architect, DevOps, AI, Software-Developer Freelancer