Puja Abbassi
Field CTO at Giant Swarm
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
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Top SchoolPuja Abbassi is a Field CTO and seasoned cloud-native leader with 11+ years of experience building developer-facing products and driving Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices adoption at Giant Swarm. With a PhD background in Management Information Systems, he uniquely blends academic research in social network analysis, entrepreneurship, and supply chain/cyber security with hands-on product and developer advocacy roles. He has mentored startups across Germany, China, and Iran, advised the European Commission on innovation, and remains active in accelerator programs like Chinaccelerator and AvaTech. Known for translating complex research into practical product strategies, he also teaches and speaks widely on entrepreneurship and tech ecosystems. An uncommon skill set pairing deep technical cloud expertise with Chinese language and cultural fluency helps him navigate international markets and cross-border product initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Management Information Systems General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Management Information Systems General at University of CologneChinese Certificate Chinese, Chinese Certificate Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University
English, German, Persian, Chinese, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
k8s10
api10
vault10
prometheus10
controller10
giant-swarm10
kubelet10
kubernetes10
lifecycle10
minikube10
nginx10
dashboard10
subproject10
grafana10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
puja108/puja108.github.io
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Hexo blog
Contributions:12 reviews, 15 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
puja108/blog_old
Apr 2020 - Nov 2023
My blog migrated to fastpages
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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