Moritz Johner
/dev/fd0, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMoritz Johner is a Staff SRE and platform infrastructure engineer based in Hamburg with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, immutable infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. He combines deep hands-on skills in Go, DevOps practices, and low-level networking with a track record of stabilizing and instrumenting production systems. At Form3 he advances platform reliability and at External Secrets Inc advises on secure secret management—he has made notable open-source contributions to the External Secrets projects, adding role-assumption, metrics, and robustness fixes. Moritz is pragmatic about automation and testing, having implemented end-to-end tests and metrics pipelines that improve operability. He brings a systems-minded approach that uncovers subtle failure modes (e.g., null-secret handling) before they reach customers.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
aws-secrets-manager10
go10
prometheus10
aws10
vault10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
refactor9
cicd9
template-engine9
refactoring9
secrets-manager8
system-design8
api-design8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
external-secrets/external-secrets
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1214 reviews, 284 commits, 1092 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Moritz appears to have focused on improving the project's core functionalities. Their contributions include removing redundancies and newlines in code, implementing the status conditions, refactoring the provider and secrets client interface, and adding support for authentication data from vault response. They also addressed a bug where the AWS Secrets Manager could return a null value and a potential issue in the code by ensuring data is correctly converted. Finally, they have also introduced fixes to improve the quality and reliability of the project.
aws-secrets-managerexternal-secrets-operatorkubernetes-secretsexternal-secretskubernetes
external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:58 reviews, 15 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Moritz implemented basic metrics collection and exposed them via a metrics server, demonstrating experience in application instrumentation. They added support for assuming roles when retrieving secrets, enhancing the security and flexibility of the application. Furthermore, the user contributed to the development of end-to-end tests and made configurations, showing their involvement in testing, and integration. This user also focused on enhancing the project by introducing new features, like region support to secrets managers.
kubernetessecret-managementsecrets-managementawsaws-secrets-manager
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