Christian Probst

Senior DevOps Engineer

Apr 2024 — Present

• Lead for the infrastructure group managing on-premise deployments of a distributed AI application running on VMs and Kubernetes.
• First infrastructure hire (#9 employee); defined and matured processes around compliance, security, and internal IT on top of product-related infrastructure.
• Act as connective tissue between the commercial organisation and product, managing internal stakeholders and converting complex business requirements into actionable tasks.

Staff Engineer, Platform Engineering

Oct 2022 — Apr 2024

• Setting the holistic, long term vision for the infrastructure platform aligning with organizational and business needs.
• Technical management and enablement, helping solve harder problems and facilitating technical 1:1s to support team motivation.
• Defining ways of working, facilitating architectural discussions, and defining PR/deployment processes.
• Facilitating mob/pair programming sessions to accelerate learning.

Lead Platform Engineer

Apr 2021 — Oct 2022

• Setting the holistic, long term vision for the infrastructure platform and ensuring it aligns with organisational and business needs.
• Technical management - I help solve the harder problems and strive towards enabling the team to make their own decisions and take ownership. Although I don't have direct reports, I still do technical 1:1s with everyone in the team to make sure they are working on things that are motivating and relevant to their needs and interests.
• Define ways of working within the team - From facilitating architectural discussions to defining PR and deployment processes and how we write our code.
• Facilitating mob/pair programming sessions - I believe shadowing/working together with someone is the best way to learn.
• Evangelising the tools we build to the rest of the organisation - I believe I have a knack for talking to people and understanding their needs, which also helps me talk to them in a language they understand.

Senior Platform Engineer

Aug 2020 — Apr 2021

• Led implementation of a new microservice platform on AWS (EKS) designed for 10-100x previous load.
• Redefined developer interaction with infrastructure through CLI tools, APIs, and web applications.
• Focused on self-service and "you build it, you own it" culture.
• Domain expertise: Kubernetes, AWS (IAM, EKS, R53, Networking), Pulumi (TypeScript), CI/CD.

DevOps Tech Lead

May 2019 — Aug 2020

• Lead for the DevOps team responsible for IaC automation and optimizing software development processes.
• Architected and implemented a microservice foundation in Azure.
• Introduced Terraform with a focus on developer usability.
• Built a scalable system for calculating microservice uptime archived in a custom data warehouse.

Software Developer

Oct 2017 — Apr 2019

• Software development in F#, Python and JavaScript (Node.js).
• Development and maintenance of developer tooling and deployment automation.

Full Stack Developer

Sep 2015 — Sep 2017

• Managed infrastructure and software concerning integration, build, and deployment.
• Extensive use of AWS (EC2, Lambda, SQS, SNS, IAM, Kinesis, DynamoDB, ECS).