Niclas Mietz
Platform Engineer
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolNiclas Mietz is a Platform Engineer based in Bochum, Germany with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for healthcare and identity startups. He has moved from DevOps and cloud engineering roles into senior platform work, currently supporting production platforms at DeepHealth and Aidence. At Spherity he combined decentralized identity and verifiable credentials with cloud-native tooling, showing comfort at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and developer experience. Niclas contributes to notable open-source projects like sameersbn/docker-gitlab, improving build and deployment workflows and keeping a widely used Dockerized GitLab image compatible with modern components such as Gitaly and GitLab Pages. He brings pragmatic hands-on expertise in build pipelines, dependency upgrades, and deployment configuration hardening. Colloquial enough to work with product teams but technical enough to ship robust platform automation, he pairs a B.A.Sc. in Informatik with a steady track record of production-focused improvements.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Informatik, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Informatik at Fachhochschule Dortmund
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
gitlab10
container10
bash10
docker10
dockers10
yaml8
ruby8
cicd7
go7
kubernetes-pods5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
sameersbn/docker-gitlab
Apr 2016 - Feb 2021
Dockerized GitLab
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:255 releases, 1 review, 1086 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Niclas primarily focused on improving the build and deployment process for the Dockerized GitLab project. Their contributions included fixing asset compilation issues, upgrading Ruby, and modifying the build script to integrate GitLab Pages and Gitaly. They also updated the project's dependencies and addressed issues related to deployment configurations, ensuring the project's continued functionality and compatibility.
containersgitlab-apidocker-imagedockergitlab
solidnerd/terraform-k8s-hcloud
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
A simple project to spin your k8s cluster with terraform, kubeadm on hcloud
Contributions:5 releases, 21 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 7 months
hcloudkubernetes-deploymentk8s-clusterk8skubernetes
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