Tobias Fenster
Product Director DACH at Hilti Group
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolTobias Fenster is a seasoned technology executive and product leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling SaaS and cloud-native solutions across Germany and DACH markets. He has held senior roles from CTO to Managing Director and now serves as Product Director DACH and Chief Engineer at Hilti/4PS, blending strategic leadership with hands-on engineering. Tobias is skilled in IT strategy, solution architecture, Docker-based deployments and DevOps, and has contributed to high-profile Microsoft Azure and container tooling projects—adding Traefik/HTTPS and automated PowerShell setups that improved reproducible deployments. Based in Ulm with a diploma in media informatics, he combines enterprise software delivery experience with practical open-source DevOps work, often bridging product strategy and low-level engineering to accelerate adoption.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl Inf Medieninformatik, Dipl Inf Medieninformatik at Ulm University
German, English
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Github Skills (24)
docker10
http10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
cicd10
windows-server10
arm-templates10
powershell10
azure10
traefik10
devops10
openssh9
infrastructure-as-code9
bicep8
microsoft7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/navcontainerhelper
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Official Microsoft repository for BcContainerHelper, a PowerShell module, which makes it easier to work with Business Central Containers on Docker.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 23 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to enhancing the `microsoft/navcontainerhelper` repository by implementing and refining support for Traefik, an essential component for managing Business Central containers. The user's work included adding HTTPS support, integrating health checks, and addressing issues related to self-signed certificates. Furthermore, the user made multiple adjustments to the Traefik configuration and deployment scripts, thereby improving the integration of Business Central containers with Traefik proxy.
containerspowershellbusiness-centraldockerpowershell-module
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 46 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on setting up and configuring a Windows Server virtual machine with SSH access within the Azure environment. They implemented automated setup scripts using PowerShell, integrating tools like Chocolatey, Docker, and OpenSSH. The user's work included configuring network settings, installing software dependencies, and establishing a secure and reproducible environment for deploying applications within the Azure quickstart templates. They also addressed several issues related to docker.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
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