terminal@karen:~$

$ whoami

Principal Software Engineer specialized in Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and distributed systems. Passionate about open source and building scalable infrastructure solutions.

$CONTACT =karen@trawler.sh

$ cat experience.txt

Principal Software Engineer

SysEleven GmbH • Current

  • Lead development of Kubernetes-based deployment platform.
  • Participate in Architecture and design sessions.
  • Drive technical decision-making and architecture planning.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

Engineering Manager - Platform

Flink SE • 12/2022 - 07/2023

  • Managed two teams of total 7 engineers.
  • Lead development of Kubernetes-based deployment platform.
  • Initiated company-wide tech talks to reduce knowledge gaps between teams.
  • Ran code walkthroughs and reviews to ensure high-quality code.
  • Mentored and coached team members to help them achieve their career goals.

Senior Software Engineer

Mirantis • 02/2019 - 12/2022

  • Core contributor to k0s: the zero friction k8s distribution.
  • Implemented key features and improvements in Go.
  • Collaborated with open source community.
  • Took part in designing the Architecture for k0s (inspired by Kontena Paros).
  • Onboarded and mentored new team members and Junior engineers.
  • Established best practices & improvements to operational processes.

Software Engineer

CoreOS (later RedHat)• 10/2017 - 01/2019

  • Developed the machine-api openshift operator and aws/libvirt actuator for kubernetes.
  • Worked on the CoreOS installer for Tectonic.
  • Migrated infrastructure code from Terraform to Go.

Cloud and Web Operations Engineer

eBay (mobile.de) • 09/2013 - 09/2017

  • Built and migrated mobile.de’s infrastructure from legacy infrastructure to the OpenStack Cloud, using terraform
  • Created workshops for development teams.
  • Maintained and operated critical production systems.
  • Implemented monitoring and automation solutions using tools like grafana, elasticsearch and more.

$ ls skills/

Core Technologies

  • Kubernetes
  • Go
  • Terraform
  • Linux
  • Git

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • Libvirt
  • Infrastructure as Code (Iac)
  • Platform Engineering
  • Google Cloud

Methodologies & Practices

  • DevOps
  • Platform Engineering
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Cloud Native Architecture

Secondary Skills

  • CI/CD
  • System Architecture
  • System Monitoring
  • Cloud Migration
  • Technical Leadership

$ cat speaking-engagements.txt