Lead Cloud DevOps

• Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 8 years of international experience, specializing in cloud platform delivery, cloud migrations, and DevOps processes including the pharma industry pharma

• Expert in Azure cloud engineering, utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD automation, and container orchestration to drive efficient cloud solutions and align with business needs

• Proven track record in leading diverse teams and managing global delivery models, ensuring effective communication and collaboration in both onsite and remote settings

• Holds a PhD in experimental astroparticle physics, with a strong foundation in particle physics, computational physics, and software engineering, enhancing analytical and problem-solving skills

Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer and Consultant with 8 years of international professional experience. Executed assignments across various industries for multinational companies, including pharma. Key responsibilities included technical leadership for cloud platform and infrastructure delivery teams, developing feasible cloud strategies and product visions in alignment with stakeholder/business needs, driving cloud migrations and re-architectures leveraging state-of-the-art DevOps processes and tooling. Strong background in Azure cloud engineering using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep), CI/CD automation (GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, GitLab), Containerization (Docker), Container Orchestration (Kubernetes), Agile Project Management (Scrum), Microservice and loosely coupled architectures, Backend Engineering, computer networks, and application security. Skilled communicator able to lead teams belonging to diverse nationalities and using global delivery models of onsite & remote teams effectively

• Cloud Platform Implementation Lead, responsible for the development and maintenance of an Azure-based Cloud Data Processing and Analytics Platform for Digital Biomarker Study Trials, supporting Data Analysts, Study Managers and external company´s customers

• Solution (re)design of architecture landscape

• Business/stakeholder alignment across multiple study and implementation teams, requirements engineering

• Main coordinator and contact point for Microsoft’s Cloud Solution architects, driving efficiency improvements and technology adoption for the client´s Azure cloud products (message queuing systems, Kubernetes clusters, NoSQL databases, networking)

• Hands-on cloud engineering, security, secret management (HashiCorp Vault) and identity management activities

• Tech lead for full-stack Python app development, implementing heuristic algorithms to enable efficient donation activity planning

• CI/CD and automation lead (Azure DevOps platform), allowing for continuous quality assurance and delivery of cross-platform build artefacts

• Setup of new development and lifecycle workflows, based on an Everything-as-code Git repository approach

• Oversight and coordination for an Azure cloud migration of a major Data Warehousing and Analytics Platform

• Architecture design and automation of Azure Synapse and AKS platforms

• Responsible for initial setup of new lifecycle platform (GitHub Enterprise) and related CI/CD automation workflows leveraging Azure Bicep Infrastructure-as-code and GitHub Actions

• Requirements engineering and main contact point for business units and stakeholders

• Lead Python Backend Engineer responsible for designing and developing modular microservice backend component abstracting a Triple Store / Graph database capability behind REST APIs (Connexion, FastAPI)

• Continuous development lifecycle implementation, integration testing automation and continuous delivery and deployment for application increments (Azure DevOps platform)

• Consulting migrating containerized microservice workloads from on-premises OpenShift clusters to Azure AKS platforms

• Technical engineering team lead responsible for the design and implementation of a distributed microservice architecture for operationalization and flexible scaling of machine learning model optimization scans, abstracted behind RESTful APIs

• Workload containerization and orchestration on RedHat OpenShift platforms

• Automated delivery and update of backend microservice components

• Responsible for Azure Cloud migration of a containerized full-stack application landscape, including consistent CI/CD processes (Azure DevOps), Infrastructure-as-Code setup (Terraform), security and policy implementations

• Cloud architecture design leveraging Azure Vnet networking, application gateways, app services and Azure Policies

• Lead backend engineer responsible for design and architecture of distributed Python-based microservice components and their efficient scaling

• Initial setup of a Docker-based microservice orchestration landscape (Docker Swarm Platform) for frontend (Angular) and backend (C# .NET, Python, R) components

• Platform security assessments in close collaboration with governance and pen testing teams