Rico Berger
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Staffbase
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolRico Berger is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Chemnitz, Germany with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native, observable systems. At Staffbase he progressed from junior to senior SRE, focusing on scalable monitoring, incident management and automation across Prometheus, Grafana and ELK stacks. He pairs strong DevOps engineering with hands-on backend development—authoring Vault integrations and a Kubernetes operator to enable secure GitOps workflows and contributing to Prometheus Alertmanager and kubenav. Rico is also a full‑stack tinkerer who builds user-facing extensions (e.g., Raycast integrations) and improves developer UX, reflecting an appetite for both infrastructure security and product polish. His blend of production reliability work and open-source contributions shows a practical, security-minded approach to cloud automation that goes beyond typical SRE tooling.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Business Intelligence & Analytics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Business Intelligence & Analytics at Technische Universität Chemnitz
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Github Skills (52)
monitoring10
apim10
kubernetes10
flutter-apps10
charts10
typescript10
secrets10
opsgenie10
gitops10
crt10
go10
notification10
api10
kubernetes-secrets10
helm10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ricoberger/vault-secrets-operator
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:55 releases, 55 reviews, 331 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rico contributed to the development and maintenance of the `vault-secrets-operator` project, focusing on adjusting the version package to include build-time information. They also added new custom resource definitions (CRD) and a new controller for the `VaultSecret` resource, indicating work on extending the operator's functionality. Furthermore, the user implemented core logic for interacting with Vault, including client creation and token renewal, thereby enhancing the operator's ability to securely fetch secrets. They also integrated the Kubernetes Auth Method to make the operator more flexible.
operator-sdksecureworkflowworkflow-basedhelm-chart
raycast/extensions
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Rico primarily contributed to the development of the Raycast extensions, with a focus on integrating third-party services. Their work included implementing extensions for Opsgenie, Gitmoji, and Yopass, demonstrating an understanding of API interactions and UI development within the Raycast framework. The user also added features, such as saved searches, and updated existing extensions for improved functionality and user experience. They also updated the Gitmoji extension to use an API for up-to-date data.
everythingwindowsraycastlinuxneed
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