Raphael Manke
Senior Product Engineer at Dash0
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolRaphael Manke is a Senior Product Engineer based in Karlsruhe with 10 years of experience building full-stack web applications and serverless cloud solutions that minimize operational overhead. He helps customers design reliable, scalable systems and brings practical delivery experience from roles at codecentric and a current product-focused role at Dash0. An active public speaker on cloud topics, he translates complex architectural trade-offs into pragmatic, production-ready patterns. Raphael is also an open-source contributor to the widely used AWS CDK, enhancing EventBridge and Lambda event source capabilities—a signal of deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure as code. With an MS in Informationswirtschaft from KIT and a background that spans consulting, developer education, and CI/CD implementations, he blends technical depth with customer-facing delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Informationswirtschaft, Master of Science - MS, Informationswirtschaft at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
German, English, French
Github Skills (13)
lambda10
eventbus10
infrastructure-as-code10
typescript10
aws-eventbridge10
kafka10
cloud-infrastructure10
typescripts10
lambdas10
aws10
aws-cdk10
eventhub10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cdk
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 2 commits, 6 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Raphael's commits focus on enhancing the functionality of the AWS CDK, specifically regarding EventBridge and Lambda event sources. Their work involved implementing support for adding plaintext headers to EventBridge connections, adding consumer group ID support for Kafka event source mappings. These contributions improve the flexibility and feature set of the CDK for managing cloud infrastructure. The changes involved modifications to the core AWS CDK library's event source mapping and test files, showing a strong understanding of the framework.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
RaphaelManke/aws-cdk-pipes-rfc-473
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
POC implementation of a L2 construct for AWS EventBridge Pipes
Contributions:27 commits, 6 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 months
pipesaws-eventbridgepocawseventbridge
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