Oliver Thylmann
Co-Founder & Head Of Relationships
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolOliver Thylmann is a founder and technology leader with 14+ years of experience building developer-first container platforms and helping companies adopt Kubernetes and microservices. As Co-Founder & Head of Relationships at Giant Swarm he combines product, go-to-market and technical expertise to remove infrastructure complexity so engineering teams can focus on innovation. His background—an MBA layered on top of physics training—gives him a rare mix of strategic thinking and technical fluency, plus a history of founding and leading multiple startups and CTO roles. He also co-hosts a German podcast on crypto and startups, signaling a deep curiosity for emerging tech and community building beyond his day job.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Open University Business SchoolDeutsche Schule Brüsselnone, none at RWTH Aachen
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
giant-swarm9
cluster-api8
documentation8
helm8
kubernetes7
monitoring4
transparency4
prometheus3
dashboard3
cloud-init3
grafana3
kubernetes-cluster3
vmware2
operator2
azure2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
othylmann/thylmann.net
Jan 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
othylmann/app-eswirdbesser
Feb 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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