Richard Hillmann
Site Reliability Engineering Lead at Flowers-Software GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarRichard Hillmann is a Site Reliability Engineering Lead based in Munich with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native platforms. He has progressed from hands-on system administration and automation to senior platform and SRE roles at Scout24, AutoScout24 and Traefik Labs, and now leads SRE at Flowers-Software. Richard specializes in Linux infrastructure, orchestration and observability—bringing practical experience with Puppet, Docker/Mesos, Kafka and ELK to production-scale systems. He balances engineering leadership with deep operational know-how, often stepping into networking and datacenter challenges that cross traditional Dev and Ops boundaries. Known for turning legacy setups into automated, monitored platforms, he thrives on reducing toil and improving reliability across complex distributed services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (200)
proxy10
svg10
command-line-tool10
puppet10
hydra10
athens10
service-discovery10
json10
openid-connect10
toml10
bitbucket10
nodejs10
traefik10
icc10
time-series10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
Project0/fioviewer
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
Visualize fio logs in the Browser
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 6 months
browserfiovisualizejavascriptlogs
project0/arch-system-packages
Apr 2022 - Mar 2026
PKGBUILD files and scripts to bootstrap, configure and manage my whole system configuration
Contributions:6 PRs, 64 pushes in 3 years 11 months
archlinuxpacmanpkgbuild
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