Moritz Eysholdt
Co-Founder at Gitpod
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolMoritz Eysholdt is a seasoned software architect and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience, co-founding both Gitpod and TypeFox while driving developer tooling and cloud-native infrastructure. Based in Kiel, Germany, he blends hands-on DevOps and automation expertise with strategic product leadership, focusing on reliable build and deployment pipelines for large-scale developer platforms. At Gitpod he made impactful contributions to build configurations, automated preview environment deployments, and infrastructure hardening for K3s-based clusters. His background includes enterprise consulting at itemis and contracting for Cisco, giving him experience across startups and large organizations. Moritz holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Oldenburg and is comfortable working deep in CI/CD, image distribution, and deployment automation—often solving the less-visible but critical plumbing that keeps developer platforms running.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
docker10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
infrastructure10
automation-testing10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
devops10
gcp9
cloud-services9
cloud-platform9
eclipse6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gitpod-io/gitpod
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:259 reviews, 135 commits, 143 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Moritz primarily focused on improving the build and deployment process for Gitpod. They made several changes to the `.werft` build configuration, including fixing release builds, adding version manifests, and modifying image repositories. The user also worked on automating the deployment of preview environments using Harvester, creating scripts for image distribution and database migrations, and enhancing the robustness of the deployment pipeline. Their contributions also touched upon certificate management, DNS configuration, and general infrastructure improvements related to K3s deployments.
automatestheiadev-environmentdisposabledevcontainer
eclipse/Xpect
Jun 2012 - Sep 2018
This repository has been rewritten to move to the Eclipse Foundation. Find the old history here: https://github.com/TypeFox/Xpect
Contributions:1 review, 122 commits, 27 PRs in 6 years 3 months
javarewritteneclipsefoundation
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