Summary
Sandro Manke is a pragmatic freelance Software and System Architect with over two decades of hands-on experience turning complex legacy systems into cloud-native, secure, and maintainable platforms. Based in Berlin, he blends deep engineering skills (C++, Go, Rust, Kubernetes, Terraform) with pragmatic architecture, platform and security guidance for clients like Porsche, Börse Stuttgart and Solarisbank. He favors minimal, human-centered solutions—using the least tech necessary—to achieve business goals while improving developer productivity and operational maturity. A longtime cloud practitioner, Sandro has repeatedly led hybrid and multi-cloud migrations, GitOps and IAM projects, and is as comfortable sketching high-level governance as he is shipping production code. Not obvious from the title: he’s been iterating on distributed systems and IoT/embedded backends since the early 2000s, often surfacing subtle operational tradeoffs before teams notice them.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden
Let others collect the garbage, Let others collect the garbage at Java
Make C++ great again, Make C++ great again at Rust
Bring the sanity back, Bring the sanity back at Go
Managing memory, Managing memory at C++
Coder World domination, Coder World domination at Computer
English, German