Timo Derstappen
Chief Technology Officer at Giant Swarm
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTimo Derstappen is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of Giant Swarm, with 19 years of experience building platforms that make running Kubernetes at scale straightforward for engineering teams. He combines hands-on product and engineering leadership with a clear focus on developer experience, platform automation, and GitOps-driven workflows. Under his stewardship Giant Swarm has become a trusted operational platform for teams aiming to ship software without being dragged down by infrastructure. Currently he’s exploring the intersection of cloud-native tooling and automation—shipping ideas around AI agents for infrastructure, smart factory developer platforms, and enhanced internal developer platforms. Based in Cologne and educated in Wirtschaftsinformatik at Universität zu Köln, he prefers pragmatic solutions that reduce unnecessary complexity while enabling large-scale digitalization. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prioritizes developer productivity and practical, long-term platform reliability.
19 years of coding experience
Wirtschaftsinformatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik at Universität zu Köln
Github Skills (194)
giant-swarm10
coreos10
fabric10
monitoring10
api10
helm10
subnet10
database10
kubernetes10
go10
documentation10
docker10
docker-image10
time-series10
masters10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
giantswarm/hipache
Mar 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 10 months
golangproxywebsocketwebsocket-proxydistributed
giantswarm/onsho
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:49 commits, 1 push, 4 comments in 4 months
clustersvmsqemucoreos
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