Michael Würtinger is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems, currently at Google. He specializes in Kubernetes, observability, and Go, with a track record of introducing microservice architectures, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes at scale during a long tenure at eGym. A Linux and open-source enthusiast, he combines hands-on coding with on-call responsibility to keep both users and engineers productive. His background spans system administration, infrastructure ownership, and technical leadership, informed by studies at LMU, TUM and UC Berkeley. Notably, he blends deep operational rigor with developer empathy—shaping platforms that make engineering teams faster and more reliable.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Honors Degree, Technology Management, Honors Degree, Technology Management at Technical University of Munich
Contributions:3 PRs, 74 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 10 months
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Michael Würtinger - Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google