Vedran Lerenc
Development Architect at SAP
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolVedran Lerenc is a development architect and product owner at SAP with over 40 years of programming experience and more than two decades leading teams, specializing in cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes since 2016. He helped build Gardener, a notable open-source project for managing Kubernetes at scale, and has been driving central engineering priorities across SAP’s cloud initiatives. With roots in founding a startup and early development work at IBM, he combines hands-on systems design with strategic product leadership. Recently he has expanded into GenAI agents and tooling, applying his deep operational and orchestration expertise to emerging AI-driven workflows. Based in Walldorf, Germany, Vedran is known for bridging product ownership and technical architecture to deliver reliable, production-grade platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Hochschule Mannheim
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
k8s10
operator10
mesos10
ecosystem10
github-api10
amazon10
kubernetes-monitoring10
controller10
openstack-swift10
terraform10
backup10
disaster-recovery10
cloud-foundry10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gardener-attic/bot-test-repo-1
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
GitHub Bot Manager Test Repo #1
Contributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 89 commits in 2 years 1 month
botbot-managergithub-bottest-repo
gardener/chaos-engineering
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Chaos engineering tools for Gardener-managed clusters
Contributions:14 reviews, 15 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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