Thomas Jungblut
Owner at Jungblut Robotics
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Jungblut is a Principal Software Engineer and founder based in Berlin with a strong five-year track record in cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, and reliability engineering. At Red Hat he focuses on OpenShift and etcd, contributing bug fixes and reliability improvements to the widely used etcd project and hardening disaster-recovery test suites for OpenShift. He blends backend, database and DevOps expertise—from low-level bbolt storage work and power-failure tests to CI stability and restore-path validation—bringing an operator’s mindset to software design. As owner of Jungblut Robotics and with prior senior roles at N26, SAP and Microsoft, he pairs engineering leadership with hands-on delivery across scale and failure scenarios. Colleagues benefit from his pragmatic focus on observability, resilience and reproducible testing in critical distributed systems.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at The Berlin School of Economics and Law
German, English, klingon
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
testing10
databases10
distributed-systems10
etcd10
cicd10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
benchmark9
container9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
etcd-io/bbolt
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
An embedded key/value database for Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:106 reviews, 24 PRs, 227 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the `bbolt` database, fixing benchmark errors and improving the benchmarking functionality. They added a gobench output option, enabling the integration of benchmark results with external testing tools. Further contributions included modifying surgery commands and adding tests related to power failure scenarios, specifically for XFS and ext4 file systems. The user also introduced a freelist interface with array and hashmap implementations.
golangdatabaseembeddedkey-valuekey-value-database
etcd-io/etcd
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:128 reviews, 14 commits, 41 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the `etcd-io/etcd` repository by fixing bugs, enhancing the project's reliability, and improving the functionality of the distributed key-value store. Their work includes improving the lock example, reducing polling intervals, and adding test names to e2e cluster members for debugging. Additionally, the user addressed CI flakes and corrected issues with etcdctl commands, enhancing the project's build and deployment processes. These changes indicate a focus on both back-end system improvements and operational aspects of the project.
etcdcriticalconsensusdistributed-systemreliable
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