Oliver Arafat
Sr. Manager Solutions Engineering DACH at Cloudflare
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Arafat is a seasoned cloud and solutions engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud adoption across DACH, Benelux and CEE, now leading Solutions Engineering DACH at Cloudflare. He combines hands-on engineering chops—contributing to infrastructure projects like the Terraform AliCloud provider—with strategic leadership roles including Regional CTO and Head of Cloud Solution Architects at Alibaba Cloud. His background spans major cloud vendors (Alibaba, AWS, Microsoft) and enterprise R&D (Siemens, SAP, IBM), enabling him to translate deep technical detail into commercial and product strategy. Oliver is fluent in developer ecosystems and open source practices, having fixed critical provider bugs, added monitoring and webhook features, and improved regional STS handling in provider code. Known for public speaking and field-driven mentorship, he brings a practitioner’s perspective to executive cloud strategy and developer enablement. Based in Munich with a Master’s in Software Engineering, he quietly combines research rigor with pragmatic DevOps execution.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Technical University of MunichMaster of Software Engineering with honours Computer Science, Master of Software Engineering with honours Computer Science at Technical University of Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University, University of Augsburg
English, French
Github Skills (11)
terraformer10
alibabacloud10
go10
terraform10
devops9
cloud-infrastructure9
cloud-services9
api8
automation8
automations8
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aliyun/terraform-provider-alicloud
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Terraform AliCloud provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 17 PRs, 54 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Oliver contributed to the Terraform provider for AliCloud. Their work involved fixing bugs and implementing features related to resources, including scaling configurations, backup policies, and database instance monitoring. They also added support for site monitors, webhook support for alarms, and made improvements to the infrastructure code by fixing the regional STS endpoint, further demonstrating their skills in DevOps and infrastructure management. The contributions focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the provider.
alicloudterraform-providerproviderterraform
arafato/funcy-azure
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:18 releases, 155 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
azure-functionscommand-line-interfacemobile-webapplication-frameworkconfigure
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