Roman Plessl
Co-Founder Head Of Finance AWS Security Specialist at Plessl + Burkhardt GmbH
Baden, Aargau, Switzerland
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SeniorRoman Plessl is a Swiss technology leader and co-founder with 12 years of experience fusing cloud architecture, AWS security, and finance leadership. As Head of Finance and AWS Security Specialist at Nuvibit and CEO of Plessl + Burkhardt, he balances people-first management and hands-on engineering for complex cloud systems. He contributes to notable open-source infra projects—improving Grafana Puppet modules and adding a robust OpenTSDB output plugin to Telegraf—demonstrating a focus on reliability, testing, and cross-platform compatibility. Trained as an ETH MSc EE, he combines technical depth with consultancy experience to turn complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions while mentoring teams and developing talent.
12 years of coding experience
German, English, French
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Github Skills (21)
puppeteer10
puppet10
testing10
git-repository10
opentsdb10
repo-management10
go10
yaml10
management10
metric10
repository-pattern10
redhat9
debian9
telegraf9
rspec9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/telegraf
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Roman primarily focused on developing and testing an OpenTSDB output plugin for the Telegraf agent. They implemented the plugin, including connecting to an OpenTSDB server via telnet and formatting data for ingestion. Their work included writing unit and integration tests, covering multiple scenarios, and ensuring data integrity. They also introduced debugging features and improved code formatting.
agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf
bfraser/puppet-grafana
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Puppet module to manage Grafana
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Roman primarily focused on enhancing the Puppet module for Grafana. Their work included modifying the installation process, specifically addressing dependencies on operating systems like Debian and RedHat. They also added configuration parameters to control the repository management of the Grafana repository, along with implementing the necessary testing rules, as well as improving the spec tests. These changes indicate a focus on improving the module's reliability and compatibility.
puppet-modulegrafanapuppet
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