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Senior System Engineer

Louis Kern

Louis bringt bei uns das «Dev» ins «DevOps»

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Experience
15 years of IT experience
Languages
DE · EN
  • 10 years IT service provider
  • 5 years Service Provider
Focus Automation 1.78 Containers 2.39 DevOps 3.42 Virtualization 1.37
Vendors VMware

Focus areas

  • Cloud Native/Kubernetes
  • Container solutions based on Kubernetes and GitOps

Technologies

Automation & Development Golang, Python, Bash
Virtualization VMware vSphere
Container & Cloud Native Docker, K8s, Tectonic, Openshift, Rancher, Kubermatic, nginx, Rook, GitLab, ArgoCD
Operating Systems RHEL 6-9, Ubuntu 18-24

Further education

  • Informatiker EFZ Systemtechnik 2009-2013
  • Bachelor of Science in Informatik 2014-2018

Certifications 5 · verified via Credly

Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation - Implementation 2026
VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator 2026
GitLab Solutions Architect Core Verified Associate 2026
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator 2026
HPE Advanced Product Certified - HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software administrator 2025

Project history 3 periods

  1. 2024

    Banking

    Senior Software Engineer

    Self-service solution for creating Kubernetes clusters within Inventx's cloud. Complete setup including VM provisioning, IP address management via InfoBlox, software deployment on CentOS, and kubeadm cluster setup.

  2. 2023

    Banking

    Senior Software Engineer

    Built and automated the Kubermatic infrastructure within an existing ecosystem. Integration of self-developed automation solutions. The solution was implemented using various custom-built operators, controllers, and a proto-based REST API with gRPC gateway in Go.

    Banking

    Senior Software Engineer

    Integration of the Harbor registry into the Cloud Portal. Deployment of the registry on k8s with Postgres HA, also running on k8s.

  3. 2022

    Banking

    Senior Software Engineer

    Ordering of namespaces via a custom CloudPortal. Implemented with controllers, operators, and a proto-based REST API with gRPC gateway.

2016 - 2019

Built and operated a Kubernetes infrastructure using Bind9 DNS, ISC-DHCP, nginx+, tectonic, and GitLab. Operation of applications in Kubernetes pods using Elastic and MongoDB. Co-development of applications in Go. Creation of CI/CD pipelines in the form of boilerplates. Development of initial operators for operating databases (Aerospike and MongoDB).

Related services

service 0.63

Orchestration
service 0.60

Linux and Containers
service 0.59

Virtualization