Nick Jüttner
Platform Engineer
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNick Jüttner is a Platform Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years building cloud-native infrastructure and automation for large-scale internet businesses. He combines deep Kubernetes and Golang expertise with hands-on AWS and Azure experience, having helped shape cluster lifecycle tooling (CAPI/CAPA/CAPZ) and production operators at Giant Swarm and Zalando. A long-time external-dns maintainer and contributor, he implemented new DigitalOcean and Cloudflare providers and optimized provider integrations to reduce API calls and improve zone detection. Nick’s background spans data center ops, load balancing and PCI-DSS sensitive payment infrastructure, giving him a rare perspective that bridges legacy ops and modern cloud-native platforms. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he focuses on reducing operational complexity while shipping reliable, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
OSZ Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medientechnik Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
digitalocean10
cloudflare10
go10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
external-dns10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 294 reviews, 149 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed significantly to the implementation of a new DNS provider (Digital Ocean and Cloudflare) for Kubernetes, which involved writing code for DNS record management. They addressed bugs and improved the existing infrastructure by refactoring code. The user also focused on enhancing the existing provider integrations by reducing API calls and improving zone detection.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
giantswarm/dns-operator-aws
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
DNS Operator for AWS - CAPI/CAPA related operator which manages workload cluster DNS zones and DNS delegation in management cluster
Contributions:28 reviews, 105 commits, 67 PRs in 7 months
delegationdnscluster-apicapicluster-management
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