About
Software engineer near Stuttgart. I build and run an internal developer platform, and I write down what I learn.
I’m Matthias. I work on internal developer platforms: the clusters, pipelines and golden paths that other engineers build on. Most of my day is Kubernetes and Go, plus the decisions, big and small, that keep a system boring in the best sense.
This site exists for two reasons. First, so that there is one place on the internet that says I exist. Second, as a notebook. When I learn something the hard way, I write it down here so that the next person (often me) learns it the easy way.
I prefer short answers first and details after. Every post starts with the conclusion. If the first line is all you need, you can stop there.
Timeline
- 2023 –Software Engineer → Senior
The title says software engineer. The job is SRE and platform engineering: I build an internal developer platform, keep it running, and host a few backend services on it myself, so I feel every sharp edge first.
- 2023Working student, data engineering
The E in ETL, plus the GCP infrastructure underneath. Mostly the E.
- 2021 – 2023M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Stuttgart
Thesis: implementing variational quantum algorithms as compositions of reusable, microservice-based plugins.
- 2020Working student, software engineering
Some Angular, mostly Go microservices on GCP. The backend won.
- 2018 – 2021Tutor, University of Stuttgart
Taught digital logic and computer organisation to first-years. Explaining flip-flops at 8 am taught me more than it taught them.
- 2017 – 2021B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Stuttgart
Thesis: a recommendation system for services. Netflix for microservices, minus the budget.
Off the keyboard
- Reading
- Mostly non-fiction about systems and people. Some science fiction to recover.
- Hiking
- Day tours in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps. Early start, early summit, early beer.
- Via ferrata
- I am afraid of heights. I go anyway, one clip at a time.