Yannick Kirschen
Software Engineer at REWE digital
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolYannick Kirschen is a software engineer at REWE digital with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale, edge-focused Kubernetes infrastructure across roughly 7,000 clusters. He specializes in Go, Linux, GitLab CI/CD and cloud-native tooling, while also maintaining fluency with Java and traditional VM environments. Rising through apprenticeships and a dual-study program to his current engineer role, he combines hands-on development with practical DevOps ownership. Outside work he applies systems-thinking to railway signal box technology, actively developing a modular model-railway control system inspired by Deutsche Bahn electronic interlockings. He is based in Cologne and brings a methodical, infrastructure-first mindset to resilient distributed systems. Ambitious and curious, he’s also an authorized amateur train dispatcher and photographer, blending technical rigor with real-world operations experience.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor Angewandte Informatik at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)Ausbildung Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung, Ausbildung Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung at Georg-Simon-Ohm-Schule Köln
German, English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
jsinterop10
monitoring9
charts9
helm9
data-visualization9
dashboard9
elasticsearch9
java-programming9
mysql9
java9
prometheus9
pi4j8
maven8
influxdb8
grafana8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yannickkirschen/Vader
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Vader is a collection of useful classes and functions, written in and for the Python programming language.
Contributions:1 release, 66 PRs, 66 pushes in 20 days
python-programmingpythonprogramming-languagepython-programming-languagevader
yannickkirschen/discord-weather-bot
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A bot that sends a daily weather forecast in a Discord channel.
Contributions:3 releases, 51 reviews, 20 commits in 4 days
weather-forecastdiscordbotdiscord-botdiscord-channel
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