Friedrich Kurz

Professional Summary

I'm a senior IT professional from Munich, Germany, with comprehensive experience in Kubernetes-native application development, cloud platform engineering, and DevOps engineering.

I think business goal first and can boost your development process end to end from requirements engineering to deployment combining a human-centric mindset with quality-focused, state-of-the-art engineering.

Core Skills

Kubernetes-native Development
DevOps Engineering
Quality Assurance
Cloud Infrastructure Development
Agile Software Development
Languages: German (native) | English (fluent) | Japanese (intermediate) | Italian, French (beginner)
M.Sc. Computer Science
6+ years industry experience
Certified expertise

Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer MaibornWolff GmbH, Munich, DE 01/2024—present
  • Lead DevOps engineer in a team improving functional and non-functional properties of embedded software release train at large home appliances company. ﹝GitLab, PowerShell, Docker, Conda﹞
  • Spearheaded and led internal modular cloud infrastructure building blocks project using state of the art infastructure as code tools. ﹝Azure AKS, GitLab, NuShell, Terraform, Terratest﹞
Senior Software Engineer MaibornWolff GmbH, Munich, DE 01/2020—12/2023
  • Cloud-native developer for a charge point management services provider's Kubernetes micro services cluster running on AWS. ﹝AWS EKS, Java EE/Wildfly, Helm, Docker, GitLab, Kafka, Keycloak﹞
  • Cloud platform engineer for relaunch of a large online tourism company's online booking platform in the AWS cloud. ﹝AWS EC2/EKS/CloudFront/WAF/VPN, Terraform﹞
  • Software developer, DevOps engineer, and support engineer working on a large automotive company's just-in-time/just-in-sequence real-time logistics backend. ﹝Java EE, Payara, Jenkins, Kafka, IBM MQ﹞
Student Jobs IBM Deutschland GmbH | MaibornWolff GmbH | Demodesk GmbH 01/2016-04/2016 | 07/2017-12/2019 | 04/2018-10/2018
Freelance copywriter and promoter / professional reorientation 03/2009—10/2012
Student Jobs Sixt Gmbh | Siemens AG | The Promotion Company | Eisai Co., Ltd. 05/2003-09/2004 | 07/2005—02/2006 | 07/2006-02/2007

Education History

M.Sc. Informatics Technical University of Munich 06/2017—04/2020
  • Grade: 1.9 | Focus areas: Formal Verification, Software Engineering, AI & Robotics
B.Sc. Computer Science FernUniversität in Hagen 10/2012—04/2017
  • Grade: 1.5 | Focus areas: Knowledge-based Systems, Software Engineering, Embedded Systems
M.A. Japanese Studies Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 10/2002—04/2009
  • No degree | Minors: Economics, Philosophy
High School Max-Planck Gymnasium 09/1992—06/2001

Certifications

  • GitLab: Fundamentals Associate
  • CNCF: CKA, CKAD
  • AWS: CLF-C02
  • Azure: AZ-204, AZ-900
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