TimĀ Buchwaldt
Senior Staff Engineer at DeepL
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolTim Buchwaldt is a Senior Staff Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, bare-metal infrastructure and Kubernetes-based internal developer platforms. Based in Cologne, he led DeepLās Olympus unitābringing together Platform Engineering, Developer Experience and SREāto deliver a cohesive onāprem platform spanning Cilium, Ceph, GitLab and cross-team SLA/SLO practices. He blends a developerās curiosity with operator rigor, owning everything from low-level networking and storage to platform APIs and developer workflows. Known for converting complex infrastructure constraints into pragmatic, reliable solutions, Tim enjoys tackling deep technical challenges and optimizing systems end-to-end. His background includes leading SRE teams, custom IoT/Elixir backends, and long experience with automation and observability tooling, reflecting a rare full-stack infrastructure artistry.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Expert, Software Development, Good, Computer Science Expert, Software Development, Good at Berufskolleg fĆ¼r Wirtschaft und Verwaltung der Stadt AachenAbitur, Chemistry, Biology & English, Abitur, Chemistry, Biology & English at Rheingymnasium Sinzig
English
Github Skills (200)
exporter10
http-client10
k8s10
operator10
client-library10
middleware10
json10
prometheus10
amazon10
prometheus-exporter10
backup10
disaster-recovery10
ssh10
continuous-delivery10
pipeline10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
grandcentrix/logstash-codec-logfmt
Jun 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
timbuchwaldt/exmqttc
May 2017 - Nov 2018
Elixir wrapper for the emqttc library
Contributions:94 commits, 2 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 6 months
elixir
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