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Moritz Schmitz-von Hülst

@moritzschmitz-vonhls

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Staff platform engineer with 10+ years in infrastructure and SRE, building AI-augmented developer tooling at scale.

Germany

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a platform role where I can build AI-augmented developer workflows on Kubernetes, strengthen secure delivery and observability, and turn internal tooling into a measurable force multiplier for engineers and AI agents.

I’m a Staff Platform Engineer with 10+ years of infrastructure and SRE experience, focused on AI-augmented developer tooling and high-scale platform engineering. I bring a product mindset to internal platforms, so engineers and AI agents can move faster without sacrificing reliability.

At Oviva, I built an internal Claude Code plugin ecosystem used by 60+ engineers to accelerate CI/CD, Helm, and Kubernetes operations. I also designed a release flow that moved 80+ services to a continuous delivery model, and I standardized platform components—Terraform modules, Helm chart conventions, and FluxCD pipelines—across dozens of repositories.

I pair platform delivery with secure operations in regulated environments, including zero-trust architectures and sovereign cloud controls. I led observability improvements with OpenTelemetry and SLO/SLI practices, handled incident response on 7 production incidents, authored 5 postmortems, and contributed AI-assisted security research in a regulated setting.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Staff DevOps Engineer

Current

Oviva AG

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 7 months)

Built an internal Claude Code plugin ecosystem used by 60+ engineers and standardized platform components (Terraform modules, Helm conventions, FluxCD pipelines) across product repositories. Led zero-trust and observability improvements, including migration behind Google Identity-Aware Proxy and OpenTelemetry-based tracing with SLO-driven runbooks.

CI CD Helm Kubernetes Terraform Flux CD GitOps Identity Aware Proxy Zero Trust OpenTelemetry Cloud SQL Incident Response Postmortems GCP VPC Service Controls

Software Engineer

Berliner Softwareschmiede GmbH

Jan 2020 - Jan 2022 (2 years)

Built a greenfield Kubernetes platform for a major German public-service online portal, meeting OZG compliance and public-sector security requirements. Implemented GitOps deployment using GitHub Actions and FluxCD and developed Spring Boot backend components integrating with legacy government systems via REST and NATS.

Kubernetes GitOps GitHub Actions Flux CD Apigee Keycloak Spring Boot REST APIs NATS

DevOps Engineer / Delivery Lead

Market Logic Software AG

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year)

Led migration of a self-managed bare-metal Kubernetes cluster to managed GKE and managed workloads across GCP and Azure. As SRE delivery lead, coordinated cross-team dependencies and delivered infrastructure components using Terraform, Ansible, and Python, while centralizing secrets with HashiCorp Vault and external-secrets.

Kubernetes Bare Metal GCP Azure Terraform Ansible Python

Software Engineer

Market Logic Software AG

Jan 2015 - Jan 2019 (4 years)

Transitioned from backend development to DevOps, taking ownership of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI) and cloud services. Contributed to rewriting a legacy Java/GWT frontend into a React single-page application.