Nils Seip
Cloud Native Software Engineer
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNils Seip is a Cloud Native Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to Kyma at SAP Hybris and focused on building production-grade Kubernetes-based platforms. He combines backend and DevOps expertise—improving serverless lambda performance, enhancing Knative Eventing and Kafka integrations, and maintaining CI/CD and test-infra for multi-branch Kyma releases. Prior roles span cryptographic systems at BMW, backend work at Hetzner Cloud, and a mobile Flutter side project addressing gluten-free needs, showing breadth across infrastructure, security-adjacent systems, and product-facing apps. With an M.Sc. in Computer Science (1.3) from Philipps-Universität Marburg, he brings both deep technical chops and practical open-source impact in the Kyma ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatik, 1.3, Master of Science - MS, Informatik, 1.3 at Philipps-Universität Marburg
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
javascript10
testing10
bash10
cicd10
performance-testing10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-native10
knative10
github-ci9
dockers9
docker9
githubaction-workflow9
azure8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/kyma
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:403 reviews, 74 commits, 146 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nils primarily contributed to improving the performance and functionality of serverless lambdas within the Kyma project. Their work included developing and integrating performance tests using JavaScript, modifying shell scripts for prerequisites, and modifying JavaScript files for performance tests. In addition, the user made updates to event bus tests, which included refactoring and using the latest images. The user also made enhancements to Knative Eventing Mesh and Kafka Channel Integration.
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kyma-project/test-infra
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 26 commits, 59 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nils primarily contributed to the test-infra repository by preparing and adjusting jobs for Kyma releases, particularly for version 1.4. They updated testing configurations to support multiple Kyma release branches. Furthermore, the user modified CI/CD scripts, updated Kubernetes versions, and implemented best-effort cleanup procedures for AKS clusters. This indicates a focus on maintaining and improving the automated build, test, and deployment processes within the Kyma project.
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