Rick Rackow
Senior Professional Engineer at Schwarz Digits
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRick Rackow is a Senior Professional Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure and SRE practices across companies from eBay and Red Hat to TomTom and startups. He specializes in observability, automated healing, CI/CD and scalable Kubernetes platforms, with a track record of reducing downtime by designing proactive monitoring and self-remediation systems. A pragmatic leader and mentor, Rick has led SRE teams, created on-prem and cloud infrastructures, and driven security culture initiatives such as companywide CTFs and custom security tooling. He combines engineering rigor with operational pragmatism—often turning monitoring gaps into automated solutions—and holds a Bachelor’s in Applied Computer Science from HTW Berlin.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur, Abitur, Abitur at Ernst-Haeckel-OberschuleBachelor’s Degree, Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor’s Degree, Angewandte Informatik at HTW Berlin
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
RiRa12621/pagerduty-exporter
Sep 2020 - Dec 2023
Prometheus exporter for PagerDuty informations
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
exporterprometheus-exporterpagerdutyinformationsprometheus
RiRa12621/blog
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:49 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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