Peter Brachwitz
Independent Software Developer at Peter Brachwitz
Austria
Summary
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RockstarPeter Brachwitz is an independent software developer and Principal Software Engineer based in Austria with 15 years of experience building cloud-native back-end systems and DevOps tooling. He has held senior engineering roles at Elastic and Cisco and brings deep experience integrating distributed services on Kubernetes, including notable contributions to the popular Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes project where he implemented Kibana deployment automation and CI-driven container testing. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and as a technical leader, he blends hands-on coding with infrastructure design, automated testing, and secure configuration management. His background spans Java, PHP, and enterprise application development, giving him a pragmatic view of long-lived systems and incremental modernisation. Colleagues value his ability to translate operational requirements into robust deployment patterns that scale in production.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, French, Hungarian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
build-configuration10
cd10
server-configuration10
cicd10
ci-cd-pipeline10
configuration-file10
project-configuration10
kubernetes-pods10
pipeline10
configurations10
build-pipelines10
secret-management9
configuration-management9
restful-api7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/cloud-on-k8s
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 1818 reviews, 699 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter's contributions focused on implementing and integrating the Kibana deployment with the Elasticsearch stack on Kubernetes. They implemented the initial Kibana deployment, including configuring the pod template and service, and handled the creation of the basic-authentication secret. The user also added configuration to specify volume claims, and integrated automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline by adding support for testing the running containers.
kubernetes-operatorselastickibanakuberneteselasticsearch
pebrc/cloud-on-k8s
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Contributions:1937 commits, 1479 pushes, 744 branches in 3 years 6 months
elastickubernetesalibabacloudelasticsearchcloud-native
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