Hendrik von Kiedrowski

Mentored and guided a growing team of DevOps Engineers, fostering skill development and enhancing operational capabilities to support critical infrastructure.

Created and evaluated new Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to effectively measure the success of new CDN features and identify opportunities for cost efficiency improvements.

Researched and successfully launched new technologies, including NATS, to optimize low-latency CDN performance and enhance real-time data processing capabilities.

Strategically planned and optimized monthly and yearly infrastructure budgets, leveraging KPIs like user growth to ensure cost-effective resource allocation and scalability.

Provided leadership and coordination for development and engineering teams, streamlining workflows and ensuring successful project delivery for critical infrastructure initiatives.

Spearheaded the migration from Ansible to Terraform and Rancher RKE2, transitioning to a robust multi-cluster Kubernetes approach that enhanced scalability and automation.

Migrated from Thanos to a globally distributed monitoring solution utilizing the LGTM stack, significantly improving observability and incident response capabilities.

Served in a leading position, coordinating cross-functional development and engineering teams to ensure cohesive project execution and operational excellence.

Ensured the rigorous implementation of data and access security protocols in close collaboration with the CISO, significantly strengthening the overall security posture.

Planned and optimized monthly and yearly infrastructure budgets, leveraging key performance indicators (KPIs) such as user growth to achieve cost efficiency and scalability.

Designed and implemented a comprehensive observability architecture for a large-scale video CDN, collecting and storing metrics and logs from approximately 2000 servers.

Standardized processes across a multi-cloud/multi-provider environment, ensuring consistent data collection and providing a powerful backend solution for metrics and logs.

Integrated Alloy for metric and trace collection, Mimir for long-term metric storage, Loki for unindexed logs, and ELK for business-critical indexed logs, enhancing system visibility.

Developed and implemented infrastructure for observability based on retention, importance, and compliance of data using Loki, ELK, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Thanos, and Rancher.

Automated all development and infrastructure workflows using Terraform and GitLab CI, significantly improving deployment speed and operational efficiency.

Implemented several KPIs with Prometheus to accurately measure deployed infrastructure usage, enabling intelligent autoscaling and resource optimization.

Designed and implemented a Single-Pane-of-Glass solution for a large Media CDN, providing centralized visibility and control over complex systems.

Collaborated closely with developers to automate workflows with GitLab CI and Kubernetes, streamlining CI/CD pipelines and accelerating feature delivery.

Planned and implemented a multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes CDN for media streaming, ensuring high availability and resilience across diverse cloud providers like AWS, Hetzner, and Vultr.

Built several Prometheus data collectors in GoLang, enhancing observability and alerting capabilities across the infrastructure.

Designed and implemented an architecture for migrating an ultra-low-latency live streaming platform to Kubernetes, successfully maintaining or improving sub-second stream latency.

Leveraged low-level networking technologies like BGP to optimize performance within the Kubernetes environment, addressing challenges posed by diverse legacy technologies.

Collaborated with the team to ensure the new Kubernetes-based services met stringent performance requirements for live video streaming, enhancing platform reliability and scalability.

Managed the comprehensive migration of a dating application's backend from Azure to AWS, successfully resolving critical performance and service reliability issues.

Migrated essential components including media storage and a PostgresDB, ensuring data integrity and high availability throughout the transition.

Utilized Terraform for infrastructure as code and deployed services on Kubernetes, standardizing the deployment process and enhancing operational efficiency.

Implemented several critical back-office automations, including full digital payments processing with Stripe, streamlining financial operations and reducing manual effort.

Contributed to Apache Flink Data-stream processing, specifically focusing on the visualization of queues and internal processes to improve understanding and debugging.

Developed a test environment for Dashed Videostreaming, supporting research into various buffering and quality switching algorithms to optimize video delivery.