Digital Charging Solutions GmbH, Munich, Germany
Munich, Germany
July 2023 - Present
Led the rollout of a customized Backstage Internal Developer Portal (IDP), enabling golden paths and self-service, improving developer onboarding and productivity
Built and maintained custom Backstage plugins for streamlined access to CI/CD, Azure resources, and development tools — reducing dev on-boarding and context switching
Integrated Azure DevOps into the IDP for real-time visibility into pull requests, Kubernetes deployments, and service health
Architected Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies for critical Azure services, including geo-redundant Function Apps and high-availability Redis
Set up and maintained DORA Metrics to support engineering performance tracking and incident response (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate)
Designed scalable Azure DevOps pipelines using Helm to standardize Kubernetes deployments across environments
Led the adoption of OpenTelemetry, with auto-instrumentation for Java applications and a unified observability stack using Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and the ELK stack
Deployed self-hosted n8n on Kubernetes with Helm, built custom nodes, and created AI-powered workflows (e.g., RAG-based cloud compliance tools)
Successfully reduced developer onboarding time by 60% through Backstage implementation
Improved system observability with end-to-end OpenTelemetry implementation
Established robust DR strategies ensuring 99.9% uptime for critical services
Implemented comprehensive DORA metrics tracking improving engineering performance visibility