Thomas Boerger
Cloud Engineer at Webhippie
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Thomas Boerger is a Cloud Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure, currently at Cloudpunks in Nuremberg and long associated with Webhippie. He brings deep DevOps and CI/CD expertise—evident from substantial contributions to Drone CLI, Drone Docker plugin, and ownCloud's OCIS pipelines—alongside practical backend improvements in projects like Gitea. A Go evangelist and open-source contributor, he focuses on reproducible builds, multi-arch deployments, and maintainable automation that reduce operational friction. His background includes roles as a DevOps architect and Docker developer at enterprise Linux vendors, giving him a strong footing in production-grade systems and developer tooling. Not obvious at first glance: he blends technical writing and documentation fixes with code-level changes, making him effective at both developer experience and infrastructure reliability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
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Github Skills (26)
docker10
continuous-integration10
back-end-development10
command-line-interface10
drones10
rs10
continuous-delivery10
dockers10
cicd10
gitea10
go10
sql10
pipeline10
command-line10
golang10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
drone-plugins/drone-docker
Jan 2016 - May 2020
Drone plugin for publishing Docker images
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 85 commits, 50 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's contributions primarily revolved around setting up and configuring the Docker plugin within a Drone CI/CD environment. They implemented features such as reproducible builds using commit SHAs, switched to the urfave/cli library, and integrated label-schema.org labels. Further contributions involved adding an env-file flag and adding a reliable versioning system. The user also adjusted settings, such as adding a dry-run option.
docker-in-dockerpublishingdrone-plugindockerdocker-images
harness/drone-cli
Jul 2017 - Jan 2021
Command Line Tools for Drone CI
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 20 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) tools for Drone CI. Their contributions involved modifying argument usage, adding new subcommands like "ps" and "create", integrating linting and conversion functionalities, and implementing build queue commands. They also integrated a force flag to server destroy functionality.
command-line-toolsdrone-cicontinuous-integrationpipelinesdrone
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