Stefan Rudnitzki
Head Of DevOps Engineering at Universal Music Deutschland
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Rudnitzki is a seasoned engineering leader and coach with 13 years of experience building resilient backend systems and high-performing, psychologically safe teams across media, e‑commerce and fintech. Currently Head of DevOps Engineering at Universal Music Germany, he combines hands‑on SRE and platform work with departmental strategy, budgeting and cross‑team incident management to improve developer experience and product customer‑centricity. Previously he led technology departments at idealo, drove a full migration to AWS, and scaled organizations from small teams to 30+ members while embedding feedback culture and modern people practices. Trained as an integral business coach, Stefan blends technical depth (Search, NoSQL, microservices, CI/CD) with structured coaching to accelerate individual and team growth. He’s active in the Berlin tech community as co‑organizer of MUG Berlin, Async Cat Herding and co‑founder of the FOSS Backstage conference, reflecting a passion for open collaboration beyond day‑to‑day delivery. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, empathetic and relentlessly focused on turning organizational change into measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Medieninformatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Medieninformatik at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)Integraler Business Coach, Integraler Business Coach at Coaching Center Berlin
German, English, French
Github Skills (7)
skeleton6
evaluation5
java4
database3
mysql3
vagrant1
ansible1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
stefzki/db_evaluation
May 2020 - Sep 2023
A simple java database evaluation skeleton.
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
java-databasemysqlskeletonevaluationdatabase
stefzki/helperbin
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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