Tilo Soenke is a pragmatic CTO and former principal engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems from Berlin, specializing in SRE, Go, and Kubernetes. He has progressed from senior Node.js roles to leading engineering teams and shaping platform reliability at collectAI before assuming strategic technology leadership at Mousebouncer. A hands-on engineer, Tilo contributes to high-profile open source like kubernetes, where he focused on improving test quality and static analysis across integration tests. He blends mechanical-engineering rigor from TUM with software craftsmanship to bring disciplined automation, observability, and test-driven practices to fast-moving startups. Notably, his background spans both backend and test-automation work, which helps him bridge developer productivity and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur, Mechanical Engineering, Diplom-Ingenieur, Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Munich
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:19 reviews, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tilo primarily focused on fixing staticcheck failures across multiple integration tests within the Kubernetes project. Their contributions involved modifying code in various test files, including those related to API server functionality, garbage collection, scheduler performance, and client-go discovery. They demonstrated proficiency in identifying and resolving code quality issues and ensuring adherence to static analysis standards.
Package keyrate wraps Limiter from golang.org/x/time/rate to perform key based limiting
Contributions:9 PRs, 8 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years
golangwrapslimitinglimitersre
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Tilo Soenke - Chief Technology Officer at Mousebouncer GmbH