Tobias Giese
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarTobias Giese is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience, currently working at NVIDIA from Ulm, Germany. He specializes in back-end and DevOps engineering for cloud-native infrastructure, contributing to notable open-source projects like the Cluster API Provider for OpenStack. His contributions focus on improving reliability and observability—adding floating IP descriptions, readiness/health checks, and detailed metrics for gophercloud calls and webhooks. Tobias combines production-grade engineering with pragmatic infrastructure automation, often addressing tricky rebuild and orchestration edge cases such as bastion host re-creation. Colleagues rely on him for steady delivery in complex distributed systems and for making operational behavior more transparent and measurable.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
metric10
kubernetes10
cluster-api10
go10
openstack10
k8s10
cicd10
kr8s10
kubernetes-pods10
lifecycle10
dockers9
docker9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-openstack
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Cluster API implementation for OpenStack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:149 reviews, 55 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `cluster-api-provider-openstack` repository. Their work included adding descriptions to floating IPs, incorporating metrics for better monitoring, and adding metrics for GET gophercloud calls. Additionally, the user made changes to API webhooks, and corrected webhook names. They also addressed issues such as the re-creation of bastion hosts and added a readiness and health check.
k8s-sig-cluster-lifecycle
c445/test-infra
Mar 2021 - Apr 2024
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Contributions:15 reviews, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 years 1 month
test-infrastructureseccomptestinginfrastructureresource-management
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