Thomas Heinen
Business Unit Manager at Prospectra GmbH
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Heinen is a Business Unit Manager and multi-specialized DevOps, security, and storage consultant with 8+ years of focused AWS practice since 2015, guiding organizations from small businesses to enterprises through cloud adoption and digital transformation. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to notable open-source projects like Chef Infra and InSpec—with product and partnership leadership, driving AWS/vendor programs and technical reselling at Storm Reply. Pragmatic about change, he emphasizes enablement over pure tool delivery, tailoring approaches to customer skills and long-term maintainability. A serial entrepreneur and founder of Prospectra, he pairs consulting experience with software development, retail trading, and health/fitness initiatives. Thomas treats continuous learning like an engineering problem—using certification exams as structured incentives—which mirrors his “IT Speedrunner” ethos of rapid, disciplined skill acquisition. Based in Hanover, Germany, he brings a rare mix of core infrastructure coding, QA/test automation contributions, and strategic customer-facing leadership.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Sciences (Cryptography, Software Development), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Sciences (Cryptography, Software Development) at Paderborn University
German, English, French
Github Skills (17)
inspec10
testing10
configuration-management10
audit10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
virtualization10
chef-solo10
automations10
auditing10
devops10
windows9
infrastructure9
devsecops8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 18 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the `chef/chef` repository by addressing bugs and improving the functionality of the Chef Infra platform. Their commits include fixes for firewall rule resources, enhancements to checksum handling, and improvements to resource partials, indicating a focus on the core infrastructure configuration logic. Furthermore, the user implemented features like enabling AWS S3 integration with the `--recipe-url` parameter and improving target mode functionality, showcasing their involvement in broader system improvements.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
inspec/inspec
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 12 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed significantly to the testing and auditing framework, InSpec, by fixing deprecation warnings within existing tests, specifically targeting the auditd and virtualization resources. Further contributions involved improving the virtualization resource by adding support for various virtualization platforms like VMware and Hyper-V on Linux and Windows. Additionally, the user added documentation for the virtualization resource and implemented enhancements for plugin installation and management.
testing-frameworkdevsecdevopsauditinspec
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