Pierre Wilken is a founder, DevOps architect and business mentor with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines and scalable software architectures for enterprise and B2B clients. He coaches IT freelancers to escape dependency on recruiters and time-for-money work by winning direct enterprise and international customers, and has guided participants to €500+/hour rates and even >€50k monthly revenue. As co-founder of an AI integration startup and founder of consulting and training ventures, he combines technical depth in Kubernetes, hybrid cloud and distributed systems with practical go-to-market strategies for independent engineers. He also writes about the IT market and freelancing for Golem.de, translating technical insight into career- and business-focused guidance. Based in Cologne with international experience (including studies in Taiwan), he blends developer-first engineering with empathic coaching to help skilled engineers scale their impact and income.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik at Cologne University of Applied Sciences
Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung, Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung at TreeSoft GmbH & Co. KG
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