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Christian Röß

    Senior Solution Architect

    Work experience

    2015now

    Senior Solution Architect

    Audi Business Innovation GmbH, Munich
    • architecture and rollout of a worldwide container-based cloud platform (fully automated provisioning and service creation via self-service)
    • agile coaching / technology scouting
    • leading of contractors
    • expert for all AWS interests
    20142015

    Lead Infrastructure Architect

    B2X Care Solutions , Munich
    • design and implementation of infrastructure solutions
    • expert for all AWS interests
    • maintenance and support of the running infrastructure, that is, systems administration
    • general leadership of the core infrastructure services team
    20132014

    Senior Cloud Systems Administrator

    B2X Care Solutions GmbH, Munich
    • implement/configure/administer core infrastructure services (eg. Git, CI, Jira)
    • build custom solutions for backup, monitoring, collaboration
    • server management (creation, configuration, patching)
    • expand usage of additional AWS services
    20112013

    IT Consultant (part time)

    B2X Care Solutions GmbH, Munich
    • migration of an entire on-premise datacenter to AWS
    • server management (configuration, maintenance)
    20102011

    Systems Engineer

    Apple GmbH, Munich
    • maintain customer and partner requests
    • research in MDM/BYOD Solutions
    • App/policy deployment strategies
    • implement solution used by bachelor thesis
    20102010

    IT Consultant (freelancer)

    Perlenfischer GmbH & Co. KG, Wiesbaden
    • implement MacOS Server for hosting infrastructure features including filesharing/printing, profiles, mail/calendar/contacts, webserver

    Bachelor thesis

    "Design/Conception and POC of team internal project management tool for iOS"

    Implementation of an iOS app which communicates via REST to a self-contained microservice which is enriched by data from an existing Jira server. The app enhances Jira with an app-driven time-tracking function.

    Education

    20062011

    Bachelor of Computer Science - B.Sc.

    University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt

    Bachelor of Science - B.Sc. - Informatik

    20032006

    Fachinformatiker (Systemintegration)

    Berufsschule Gelnhausen

    Ausgebildeter Fachinformatiker - Fachrichtung Systemintegration

    Awards

    • Apple Certified Associate - Mac Integration
    • Apple Product Professional Level
    • Apple Sales Professional Level
    • Apple - iPhone and iPad Technical Training for Enterprise

    Skills

    Cloud agnosticism 

    Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, Docker

    AWS

    EC2, ECS, ECR, RDS, CLI (automising tasks), IAM, VPC, S3, Glacier, CloudFront, ELB, ALB, EBS, WorkSpaces, SQS, SimpleDB, Route53, ElasticBeanstalk, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Trusted Advisor, SES, SNS, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, Tags, Billing

    Deployment

    Git, Gitflow, Jenkins, Selenium, Pipelines as code, Terraform, CaaS, PaaS

    Development

    Ruby, Objective-C, node.js, groovy, PHP, Python, Shell (backend emphasis)

    Instance configuration

    Linux (Debian-, CentOS- and Gentoo-based distributions), Windows Server, Active Directory, MacOS Server, Chef, Salt

    Database knowledge

    Relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Couchbase, SimpleDB, Memcached, influxdb, Marklogic)

    Collaboration & Management

    Jira, Confluence, HipChat (creating centralized IS monitoring stream), Slack, trello, Agile, #noemail

    Methologies

    Scrum (CSPO), design thinking, DDD, CI/CD, DevOps

    Other

    Microservices, DNS, Service Discovery (Consul), Packer, SSL/TLS, VPN (Sophos, AWS VPN, Peering), Security hardening (based on audits/pentests), IDaaS, Serverless 

    Interests

    cloud/lean/kaizen/agile/startup&innovation events/meetups/books/photography/coffee/hifi/motorcycles/travel/sports/food/cooking/mountains