👨🏽💻 About Dominik
Hi, I am Dominik 👨🏽💻
APRIL 2020 - present, ZÜRICH & REMOTE
Since you can’t buy DevOps or its mindset, it is our task to accompany our two-pizza teams’ journeys thereto. With a team of five we strive to enable all of our 100+ engineers to live DevOps. Nex to shaping the self-service platform with tools like Kubernetes, our main focus is on knowledge sharing, dev-talking, documenting and guiding people within the labyrinth of tools a DevOps engineer needs. I would summarize our team as the Ops liaison from the the DevOps handbook.
We set up 24/7 monitoring of our application primarily from EMEA using a variant of Googles SRE called SRE Tridems (because it consists of triplets of engineers). After having mitigated availability concerns in 2020, we focus on transforming our click- and ticket-driven infrastructure to Infrastructure As Code — namely Bamboo to GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, as well as PagerDuty, our GitHub Enterprise Organization or LaunchDarkly to x-as-code
with Terraform. We have set up internal sig
s — Special Interest Groups — to eagerly share knowledge as well as to build and nurture the culture around these setups, so that the engineers can self-serve themselves within the DevOps ∞.
MAY 2019 - MARCH 2020, ZÜRICH & REMOTE
Leveraging SAP Luigi we developed a cross-application framework that transfers context between everyday applications of SAP Field Service Management. This eases up their flow and eradicates the need for the clipboard or worse, hand-written notebooks. We observed customers, noting recurrent interruptions in their workflow and closed these gaps.
APRIL 2019 - present, BADEN & REMOTE
Using DevOps as a guiding thread, I give two lectures, Software Design and Software Testing. We shape E-profile engineers that can build a production grade application after 18 months of part-time study. Find my materials in projects.
JANUARY 2019 - APRIL 2019, ZÜRICH, ZIVILDIENST
Through community service I was supporting the Advocacy and Policy team of Biovision in their preparations for the UN Climate Summit in Costa Rica.
APRIL 2018 - DECEMBER 2018, ZÜRICH
I was the lead architect for GRAVITY software (a digital adoption tool) and the first point-of-contact for our global customer base. I led the company’s team of developers through the initial development of the product, whether that was implementing customized technical solutions or making strategic improvements. In a startup spirit I took over product owner responsibility and actively collected user impressions to improve our overall user experience.
SEPTEMBER 2016 - MARCH 2018, ZÜRICH
We developed a crowd service platform with AngularJS, Web technologies, Node.js, Cloud Computing and a Microservice Architecture using Scrum. Ad interim I took responsibility of the development team during the absence of the CTO, taking care of daily business and project management tasks. I actively shaped the next generation product and its architecture.
APRIL 2015 - AUGUST 2016, SOLOTHURN
I worked on a patient aggregated web application with AngularJS, Web technologies and User Interaction Design using Scrum.
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served my time in the 🪖 army and 🎒 studied Computer Science at the university
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AUGUST 2007 - JULY 2011, SOLOTHURN
My apprenticeship as a computer scientist, subject area ‘Systems technology’. I also worked in first-level-support, at the help-desk and for the application support.
Project | Content | My role |
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The After-Diploma Study in Software Engineering transforms individuals from any industry into capable Junior DevOps engineers. | I am the sole maintainer, leveraging Docusaurus, Reveal.JS and Java to live by example and slowly migrating all my teacher material to code - 👋🏽 PowerPoint and Word. |
JavaFX HeatMap API | Bachelor thesis - visualization of interactions and user behaviour with heatmaps | User Experience, JavaFX |
Computer Aided Tournament Support | Preparation for thesis - tournament support software to replace individual schedules | Java, ZigBee Protocol, Arduino, Web technologies |
Many of my contributions go towards the material I create for teaching.
I look to contribute and learn more from the OpenSource community wherever I can!
Cultural transformation is a passion of mine since my early days. I am a developer advocate and strongly believe into Our Iceberg Is Melting. Every day I try to learn and improve myself and my surroundings adhering to the the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. My strengths in these areas are:
I live by the DevOps handbook and thus my hard skills are shaped around it.
Phase | Skills |
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Plan | |
Code | |
Build | |
Test | |
Deploy | |
Release* | |
Operate | |
Monitor |
Why are Release and Deploy flipped in order? Ask me 😉
References are provided upon request. You can also find some recommendations on LinkedIn.
You can always find the latest resume with cover here (Artifacts), built with GitHub Actions.