Thorsten Hans
Sr. Developer Advocate
Nonnweiler, Saarland, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThorsten Hans is a senior Developer Advocate with 15 years of experience helping teams adopt cloud-native architectures, currently shaping developer experience at Akamai after a recent Senior Cloud Advocate role at Fermyon. He blends deep hands-on engineering—spanning containers, Kubernetes, WebAssembly and automation—with a long history in Microsoft ecosystems dating back to SharePoint and .NET leadership roles. An active open-source contributor, he has improved build processes, testing, and docs for projects like Porter, demonstrating attention to developer tooling and DX. Recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2011 and a Docker Captain since 2022, he brings industry credibility and community leadership. Thorsten’s pragmatic focus on observability, IaC and continuous delivery helps teams move from legacy platforms to resilient, scalable cloud services. Based in Saarland, Germany, he pairs consultative coaching with concrete engineering changes that make cloud-native practices stick.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
2001 Wirtschaft - Informatik, 2001 Wirtschaft - Informatik at Höhere Handelsschule WadernFI AE Informatik, FI AE Informatik at I.W.M-Software AG
English, German
Stackoverflow
2,683reputation
359kreached
131answers
7questions
sharepoint
top-1%
Github Skills (16)
docker10
go10
sharepoint10
cnpack10
dockers10
build-automation10
documentation10
testing10
cicd9
yaml9
visual-studio9
asp-net6
javascript6
jquery6
command-line6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
getporter/porter
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
Porter enables you to package your application artifact, client tools, configuration and deployment logic together as an installer that you can distribute, and install with a single command.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Thorsten primarily focused on enhancing the project's documentation and improving the build process. They modified the documentation generation process, specifically validating the existence of destination directories. Additionally, they refactored the code to adopt the `afero` library and improved error messages. Furthermore, the user added test cases to validate the documentation command, and also worked on controlling mixins dockerlines. They also added support for maintainers and rearranged dependencies syntax.
porterdevopsdeploymentinstallercnab
ThorstenHans/sharecoffeebook
Jul 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:85 commits in 2 months
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