Tristan Helmich
Director IT at Checkmk
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Helmich is a Munich-based technology leader with 13 years of experience in systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, and IT strategy, now serving as Director IT at Checkmk. He has led infrastructure and engineering teams across startups and scale-ups—most recently as CTO of Genesis Cloud—focusing on GPU-accelerated compute for ML, VFX rendering, and high-performance workloads. A veteran sysadmin and NixOS enthusiast with a background in computer science and computational linguistics, Tristan blends hands-on platform expertise with strategic advisory work for large-scale accelerator-based deployments. He has repeatedly moved between deep technical execution and executive leadership, optimizing cost-efficient, scalable GPU clouds and operational tooling. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex compute requirements into pragmatic architectures that support both research and production ML workloads.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree computer science / computational linguistics, Bachelor's degree computer science / computational linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Github Skills (200)
python10
nix10
security10
ubuntu10
chat10
backup10
homeserver10
fluentd10
matrix-synapse10
nms10
log-viewer10
matrix10
puppet10
nixos10
linux10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
fadenb/docker-pmtu
Jul 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
fadenb/freifunkmuc.github.io
Sep 2015 - Dec 2020
Website von Freifunk Muenchen
Contributions:3 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 3 months
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