Torsten Walter
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolTorsten Walter is a Senior Software Engineer based in Munich with 14 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native platforms, build pipelines, and backend systems across enterprise and startup environments. He has led architecture and product efforts at Syncier and Allianz and now contributes to developer-facing infrastructure at GitHub, bringing a pragmatic blend of hands-on engineering and strategic leadership. His open-source work includes enhancements to the widely used Helm Kubernetes package manager—adding templating-to-directory support and improving test coverage—reflecting a focus on developer UX and operability. Trained as a computer scientist at Universität der Bundeswehr München, Torsten combines deep systems knowledge with a track record of shipping reliable, production-grade tooling for large organizations.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Universität der Bundeswehr München
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
code-templates10
kubernetes10
apptemplates10
go10
cpp-templates10
html-template10
helm10
python-templates10
kubernetes-pods10
charting10
charts10
devops9
jenkins6
orbeon6
jenkins-pipeline6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
helm/helm
May 2019 - Oct 2020
The Kubernetes Package Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Torsten contributed to the Helm project by implementing features related to the `--output-dir` flag, enabling the templating of Kubernetes manifests to files in a specified directory. Their work included modifying the `install`, `template` and `upgrade` actions, along with adding a test case to validate the functionality. Furthermore, they addressed code quality and made code improvements, such as skipping empty templates.
chartscharthelmpackage-managerkubernetes
torstenwalter/torstenwalter.github.io
Dec 2016 - Sep 2024
Source repository for torstenwalter.github.io
Contributions:8 PRs, 75 pushes, 13 branches in 7 years 9 months
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