Karsten
Gorskowski

DevOps Engineer

Intro

What I am all about.

Hi, I'm Karsten.

Born and raised in Northern Germany I am now located in Karlsruhe after stations in Osnabrück, Nuremberg and Frankfurt.

I started my journey in the IT business as a Customer Support Agent and Windows Client Administrator.

In 2015 I changed the course of my career and dived all in into the cloud business. When I realized which possibilities the public clouds had to offer, I was convinced that this would be the future of IT.

So since then I decided to lay my focus on all things Cloud, container, Kubernetes, automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and building resilient, highly available infrastructure

But it's not only about Big Data, huge infrastructure migrations or massive Kubernetes workloads. These are problems that only a few companies really face, to be honest. You are probably not "The Next Google or Facebook", so why try to solve their problems?

The Cloud offers many tools and services that can improve your business or product right now.

Start small, migrate a service to the Cloud. Use a serverless offering or a Managed Container Instance and deploy to production with a simple merge request.

The tools are out there and a lot of them are way cheaper than you might think. Why not use them? Start small, scale with growth!

Container and Kubernetes
Google Cloud, Azure, AWS
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana
Agile Methods, Scrum & Kanban
Chaos Engineering

What I offer

Operations

Support or development and improvement of existing systems.

Coaching

You are planning a cloud migration strategy but have no idea where to start or whom to ask?

Keep It Simple

Even on a small budget it is possible to leverage the advantages the cloud offers. It doesn't have to be Kubernetes. Start with VMs, Autoscaling and a Loadbalancer and see from there.

Works

I deliver value.

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Datacenter Automation

Design & Engineer & Operate

Planning and implementing an automated datacenter management concept based on VMWare.
Manual provision of virtual machines was replaced by a Gitlab CI driven terraform and ansible pipeline.

Installation and training developers for a Secret Management System based on HashiCorp Vault.

Industry: Fintech

Technologies:
Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab, Scrum, HashiCorp Vault & Packer

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On Demand Mobility

Clean & Minimalistic Design

Engineering and operations for multiple self-hosted Kubernetes Clusters on AWS that supplied 200+ Developer Teams with a high availabe, fully CI driven Development Platform.

Implementing the tooling and setup for a 24/7 on call rotation, supporting a massive MQTT vehicle broker infrastructure.

Industry: Automotive

Technologies:
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK, Prometheus, Keycloak, MQTT

Contacts

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