Stefan Linke
DevOps Technical Lead at Gastfreund GmbH
Kempten (Allgäu), Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Linke is a DevOps Technical Lead with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native backends and infrastructure from his base in Kempten, Germany. He combines long-term backend development (PHP/Yii2) and Android experience with current leadership at Hotelcore and senior backend responsibilities at Gastfreund, owning both application architecture and AWS hosting/DevOps. A pragmatic security-minded engineer, he contributes to prominent open-source tooling—improving Terraform security checks in the widely used tfsec project (now part of Trivy)—bringing practical IaC and AWS hardening expertise. Known for bridging developer and operations concerns, he favors measurable, automatable solutions and documentation to make security scalable across teams.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics at Fachhochschule Kempten - Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
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Github Skills (18)
terraform10
security10
terraformer10
go10
aws10
static-analysis8
scanner8
devsecops8
infrastructure-as-code8
linter8
php6
android6
android-layout6
bash6
subquery6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/tfsec
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Tfsec is now part of Trivy
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily contributed to improving the security analysis capabilities of `tfsec`. Their work focused on implementing and refining security checks related to AWS resources, specifically SQS queue policies and security group rules. They added new checks, fixed existing ones, and updated documentation to enhance the tool's effectiveness in identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations within Terraform code. The user demonstrated expertise in Terraform security best practices and AWS resource configurations.
gcplintergoogle-cloud-platformcompliancevulnerability-scanners
particleflux/yii2
Mar 2016 - Aug 2023
Yii 2 framework main development repo
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 6 months
yii2yii3frameworkyii
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