Nick Metz
Site Reliability Engineer at Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorNick Metz is a Site Reliability Engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building and improving cloud and on-premise infrastructure for enterprise and aviation tech companies. He progressed from webhosting specialist roles at 1&1 to senior Unix/Linux system administration and DevOps leadership positions at FHE3, PTV Group, Volocopter, and now Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar. Nick combines practical operations expertise with a developer mindset—contributing to popular open-source projects like Terratest and the AzureRM Terraform provider to strengthen infrastructure testing and cloud resource validation. He’s experienced leading teams and shaping DevOps practices, delivering resilient systems for safety- and scale-sensitive environments. Based in Karlsruhe, he’s passionate about new technologies and often focuses on reliability improvements that pay dividends in maintainability and automation.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (19)
postgresql10
azure-application-insights10
testing10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
testing-library10
go10
resource-manager10
arm10
azure10
devops10
app-insights10
apidoc9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terratest
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick's commits primarily focused on enhancing and expanding the automated testing capabilities within the Terratest library. They added new options for Terraform init commands, specifically related to backend configuration, migration, and state management, along with corresponding tests. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and refactored existing test code to improve reliability and maintainability. Their work directly supports the library's goal of simplifying infrastructure testing.
golangdevopstestinggo-libraryinfrastructure
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 12 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on enhancing the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Terraform provider, specifically for Azure resources. Their work involved implementing and refining database collation validation logic within the PostgreSQL resource. They also addressed Application Insights functionality, adding options for setting daily data caps and disabling notifications when the cap is hit. In addition, the user contributed to API Management features, adding support for the HTTP2 protocol and addressing minor fixes and documentation.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
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