Hey! I'm Sören – a Site Reliability & Cloud Platform Engineer with 15 years of experience building and optimizing scalable, resilient systems that grow with businesses. My focus? Observability, automation, and cloud-native architectures.
I thrive on cross-functional collaboration and DevOps best practices, solving real-world problems with pragmatic, business-aligned solutions. Whether it's designing fail-safe pipelines, troubleshooting scalability bottlenecks, or improving system reliability, I love making complex systems work seamlessly.
- 🌱 Passionate about 📃 Open Source, ☁️ Cloud Native, ♾️ DevOps, and 🤖 Automation
- 💬 Let’s chat about service reliability, scalability, or observability
- ⚡ Fun fact: Peanut butter is my Kryptonite
- 🌄 Beyond the terminal, I’m an adventurous hiker and visual arts explorer
- Some notes on and excerpts from Google's SRE books
- Prevent ARP overflow by changing sysctl settings on GKE Nodes via DaemonSet
- extshot - Ensure automated encrypted backups and long-term storage for Linux and macOS.
- youtube-dl + podget = youget
- HKUDS/nanobot - "🐈 nanobot: The Ultra-Lightweight OpenClaw" (today)
- ankitpokhrel/jira-cli - 🔥 Feature-rich interactive Jira command line. (4 months ago)
- slok/sloth - 🦥 Easy and simple Prometheus SLO (service level objectives) generator (9 months ago)
- open-guides/og-aws - 📙 Amazon Web Services — a practical guide (1 year ago)
- prometheus-operator/kube-prometheus - Use Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes and applications running on Kubernetes (1 year ago)
- skoenig/dotfiles - awesome dotfiles 😍 for feeling at home everywhere (1 day ago)
- skoenig/jsonresume-theme-engineering - JSONResume theme for senior and staff level engineers. (3 days ago)
- skoenig/website-monitor - Conceptual website monitor using Kafka and PostgreSQL for demonstration purposes. (1 week ago)
- skoenig/vimwiki-todo - A Markdown-based variant of todo.txt plus some extra features (4 weeks ago)
- skoenig/mysql-replica-http-healthcheck - health checking MySQL replicas over HTTP (3 months ago)
- skoenig/mysql-replica-http-healthcheck (debian-12-8.4-20260210-2384-e9362e8d, 1 week ago) - health checking MySQL replicas over HTTP
- kubernetes-sigs/custom-metrics-apiserver (v1.34.0, 2 months ago) - Framework for implementing custom metrics support for Kubernetes
- ChipWolf/BadgeSort (3.3.1, 3 months ago) - Automate the rendering of your shields.io logo badges and sort them in a visually pleasant way for your profile using Hilbert color sorting
- fix: consolidate and refactor tests on skoenig/jsonresume-theme-engineering (1 week ago)
- fix: downgrade mocha to 11.3.0 to resolve npm warnings on skoenig/jsonresume-theme-engineering (1 week ago)
- refactor(tests): Improve test coverage and reliability on skoenig/website-monitor (1 week ago)
- ci: add npmjs publish workflow on tag push on skoenig/jsonresume-theme-engineering-fork (1 week ago)
- feat: containerize metrics collector and writer on skoenig/website-monitor (2 weeks ago)