Summary
Tom Graupner is a cloud-native engineering leader with 11 years of experience who currently heads Cloud & Platform Engineering at SQUER while serving as a Principal Consultant. He combines hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, DevOps transformations and developer productivity with strategic platform design to help organizations accelerate delivery and improve reliability. A former co-founder of Unit 214, he has deep experience in software architecture, data integration and automation across startups and enterprise environments. His background includes academic research in distributed systems and a diploma thesis on decentralized self-management for cloud-native apps, reflecting a strong footing in both theory and practice. Based in Munich, he’s known for translating complex technical challenges into pragmatic platform solutions and for fostering collaborative, innovation-focused teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatiker Computer Science w/ focus on distributed systems, Diplom Informatiker Computer Science w/ focus on distributed systems at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden
without graduation Physics w/ focus on nano technologies, without graduation Physics w/ focus on nano technologies at Technische Universität Dresden
Microtechnologist Semiconductors, Microtechnologist Semiconductors at AMD Saxony LLC & Co KG
German, English