Thomas Schuetz
Cloud Native Trainer & Advisor Founder
St. Pölten, Lower Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Schuetz is a cloud-native trainer, architect and advisor with over 25 years in IT and a decade focused on DevOps, platform engineering and Kubernetes-driven operations. He founded TSC Labs and co-leads regional and CNCF initiatives, blending hands-on contributions to notable open-source projects like Telegraf, Keptn and k8sgpt with practical guidance for enterprise delivery. As a lecturer and curriculum contributor at multiple universities, he translates complex cloud-native concepts into teachable, trustable systems that teams can operate confidently. His work spans infrastructure, build/release automation and observability—evident from commits that improved telemetry plugins and deployment manifests—so he brings both code-level fixes and architectural clarity. Based in St. Pölten, Austria, he pairs academic rigor (MSc in Cloud Computing Engineering and ongoing MBA) with community leadership, making him a sought-after advisor for organizations adopting SLO-driven, automated delivery.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, General Management - Leadership & Change Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, General Management - Leadership & Change Management at Fachhochschule des BFI WienMaster of Science in Engineering (MSc), Cloud Computing Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering (MSc), Cloud Computing Engineering at Hochschule Burgenland
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
telegraf10
dynatrace10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
githubaction-workflow10
devops10
metric10
monitoring9
continuous-delivery9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
podtato-head/podtato-head
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Demo App for TAG App Delivery
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 74 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on the infrastructure and build processes, as indicated by the changes in build scripts and the addition of signing mechanisms. They updated version mappings in multiple files, suggesting involvement in managing service versions. Furthermore, the user merged changes, potentially integrating new features or bug fixes, which implies involvement in both backend development and the build/release pipeline.
demo-appreactreact-nativedelivery-apptypescript
k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
Giving Kubernetes Superpowers to everyone
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:107 reviews, 105 PRs, 134 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's commits primarily involved modifying the codebase to update module repos and to add functionality for analyzing Kubernetes ReplicaSet errors. They introduced a new analyzer to identify ReplicaSet failures and integrated it into the existing analysis pipeline. Furthermore, they modified the analyzer to identify the parent objects of issues and provided more detailed explanations for the issues found.
aidevopskubernetesllamaopenai
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