Pascal Breuninger
Engineering Manager at vCluster
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPascal Breuninger is an engineering manager based in Freiburg, Germany, with a hands-on background spanning frontend development to backend and DevOps in cloud-native environments. Over roughly three years of professional experience he progressed quickly from frontend engineer to technical lead and now leads engineering at vCluster, a project that creates virtual Kubernetes clusters. He contributes to notable open-source work—helping build DevPod (an open-source Codespaces alternative using Tauri, React and Vite) and improving vclusterctl's context handling—demonstrating both UI chops and CLI/devops sensibilities. Pascal excels at bridging product-facing frontend work with the operational needs of Kubernetes tooling, often implementing pragmatic UX and tooling improvements. He combines practical implementation (initial Tauri scaffolding, CSS and dependency integration) with attention to code quality like regenerating CLI docs and schema maintenance. Known for shipping focused features that make developer workflows smoother, he brings a bias for user-centered tooling in cloud-native stacks.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Staatlich geprüfter Informatiker Informatik, Staatlich geprüfter Informatiker Informatik at Akademie für Datenverarbeitung Böblingen
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
tauri10
vcluster10
go10
front-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
react10
javascript9
kubectl9
cli9
html8
helm8
vite8
css8
automation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
loft-sh/devpod
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:194 releases, 444 reviews, 863 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Pascal contributed to the DevPod project by setting up a basic Tauri project, which included establishing the initial structure and implementing core functionality. They focused on the frontend development, utilizing React, Vite and ReactDOM. The user's work encompassed creating basic CSS, and also integrating third party dependencies.
clouddevcontainerdevcontainersdeveloper-toolsdocker
loft-sh/vcluster
Jun 2023 - May 2024
vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Pascal contributed to `vclusterctl`, focusing on improving context selection and disconnection functionality. Their work involved modifying `disconnect.go` to allow users to manually select a context when the current context is not a vcluster. Additionally, the user addressed code quality by regenerating CLI documentation. The user also touched the schema definition with pro tag updates.
clustershelmvclusterk8scheaper
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