Patrick Florek
Full Stack Engineer at Self-employed
Lotte, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarPatrick Florek is a Full Stack Engineer based in Lotte, Germany, with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, secure, and scalable systems. He has led development of a distributed battery management platform at Exide Group, owning architecture, OTA-capable CI/CD workflows, device protocols, and team coaching across multi-stack environments. As a self-employed engineer he continues to deliver end-to-end solutions and brings strong DevOps and GitOps discipline to production systems. Patrick is an active open-source contributor—notably to projen—demonstrating practical TypeScript/Node.js expertise and hands-on work integrating complex cloud addons like external-secrets for EKS. He combines engineering leadership with a pragmatic focus on test-driven development, infrastructure-as-code, and secure identity and secrets management.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (28)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
aws-cdk10
typescript10
repos10
iks10
aws10
helm10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
nodejs10
typescripts10
k8s10
k10
github-ci9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
projen/projen
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Rapidly build modern applications with advanced configuration management
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributes to the projen project, focusing on bug fixes and new feature implementations. Their contributions include fixing issues related to GitHub integration, updating dependencies (like npm-check-updates), and adding features like workflow run options. The user demonstrates proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js, evidenced by changes in .projenrc.js and various TypeScript files. They also address issues related to the project's testing framework, as demonstrated by modifications to the jest matcher.
scaffoldingrepository-toolstemplatesgeneratorsrepository-management
aws-quickstart/cdk-eks-blueprints
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
AWS Quick Start Team
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on enhancing the `aws-quickstart/cdk-eks-blueprints` repository by adding and configuring the `external-secrets` add-on for an EKS cluster. Their contributions included integrating the Helm chart, configuring service accounts, merging default and user-defined values, and addressing deployment and dependency issues within the addon. They also added a secrets encryption key for the cluster.
aws-lambdaquick-startaws
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