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 (27)
giant-swarm9
swarm9
cluster-api9
documentation8
helm8
kubernetes8
dashboard4
monitoring4
cloud-init4
init4
transparency4
prometheus3
grafana3
vmware2
azure2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
giantswarm/giantswarm-wordpress-mysql
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
giantswarm/podcast
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:30 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
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