Dominic Cardellino

Dominic Cardellino

Senior Kubernetes Engineer | 32 | Herrenberg
Infrastructure as Code

IaC

Infrastructure provisioning was a manual, slow process before the birth of cloud computing and container technologies. Today, the infrastructure required can be deployed in seconds through Infrastructure as Code.

Automation

Automation

Automation is the lifeblood of a DevOps Engineer. Automation makes it possible to improve speed, security and reliability. At the same time, it reduces the susceptibility to errors and thus increases the quality of work

cybersecurity

Cyber Security

DevOps is about speed, automation and quality. When we increase speed, we often overlook vulnerabilities. With a higher security mindset, security Security features should be integrated right from the start.

collaboration

Collaboration

Teamwork is very important in today's world. You never work for your personal goals as a DevOps engineer. Every problem that occurs affects the entire team.

Skills

Terraform95%
GitOps95%
Kubernetes95%
Linux90%
Ansible95%
Python85%
CI/CD90%
GoLang65%
Agile 80%

CV

Dominic Cardellino

Education

IT Specialist/Systemintegration

2008 - 2011

CENIT AG Systemhaus, Stuttgart-Vaihingen

Mittlere Reife

2002 - 2008

Immanuel-Kant Realschule, Leinfelden-Echterdingen

Experience

Platform Engineer

2023 - now

Digistore24 GmbH

https://www.digistore24.com/

As a Platform Engineer at Digistore24, I am responsible for operating multiple Kubernetes Clusters, Building Developer Platforms, manging Cloud Infrastructure.

  • Implemented Crossplane, a framework for building cloud native control planes without needing to write code.
  • Operating multiple Kubernetes Clusters for different teams.
  • Use and improve GitOps principles in existing and new infrastructures.

Senior Kubernetes Engineer

2022 - 2023

Mercury Media Technology GmbH & Co. KG

https://www.mercurymediatechnology.com/

As a Senior Kubernetes Engineer at MMT, I am part of the infrastructure/platform engineering team. Taking care of providing a high available, secure Kubernetes platform, according to cloud native standards. I am also responsible for the underlying network infrastructure, as well as providing security best practices,

  • Developed and setup the Kubernetes infrastructure on Hetzner Cloud with HashiCorp Terraform and Kubermatic KubeOne
  • Operating and maintaining multiple Kubernetes Clusters
  • Automating parts of our infrastructure with Ansible
  • Development of CI/CD processes to deploy infrastructure
  • Implementing GitOps principles to infrastructure deployments

Operations Engineer

2018 - 2022

E. Breuninger GmbH & Co., Stuttgart

www.breuninger.com

As an Operations Engineer at Breuninger, I am part of the Operations Core Tooling team, takes care of the automated provisioning of systems and services in the private and public cloud.

  • Setup and operation of Prometheus as a central monitoring platform.
  • Build and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS and on premise infrastructure.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning through terraform and ansible.
  • Development of CI/CD processes according to GitOps principles.

IT Systemadministrator

2013 - 2018

E. Breuninger GmbH & Co., Stuttgart

www.breuninger.com

As IT system administrator I was in charge of the complete Microsft infrastructure, as well as a VMWare vSphere landscape with approx. 700 virtual machines. I was also technically responsible for the our data warehouse solution based on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.

  • Technical project responsibility for the introduction of a new data warehouse system.
  • Responsibility and administration of VMWare environment, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2013/2016.
  • Project lead: Release upgrade of the data warehouse system.

IT Systemadministrator

2011 - 2013

CENIT AG Systemhaus, Stuttgart-Vaihingen

in Projektarbeit bei Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche AG, Weissach

www.cenit.com

Through CENIT AG, as an external service provider, my task was the installation and support of the client infrastructure. Part of the project work was the rollout of Microsoft Windows 7.

  • Support and installation of the entire client infrastructure.
  • Packaging of Microsoft operating systems.