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Martin Friedrich

Senior System Administrator / CPE at Improbable Ltd

I’m a SysOps/DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting, automating and optimizing mission-critical deployments on-premise and in the Cloud. Orchestration, Config Management and Device Management are my passion. I’ve led a team of 6 at Zeuz GmbH that created a bare-metal orchestrator for Kubernetes based game-server workloads.

Adaptability
Collaboration & Teamwork
Critical Thinking
Active Learning
Good Communication
Problem Solving

Skills

Experiences

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Improbable Ltd.

Feb 2020 - Present, Remote

Groundbreaking gameplay enabled by Improbable technology.

Platform Engineer

Oct 2021 - Present

  • Automated code scanning over 1000+ repositories (Whitesource, Renovate, SonarQube)
  • Automated Patch Management (AutoPKG, Intune, Debian apt)
  • Continuous delivery of open source MDM infrastructure (MicroMDM, Puppet)
  • Device Management of a large fleet (2000+ devices)
  • Huge savings of hardware budget by offering a remote workplace solution with 3D support (Terraform, Parsec)
  • Platform Administration (Google Workspace, Atlassian, Slack, Office365)
Devops Engineer

Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Built a cost-efficient on-premise MacOS build infrastructure
  • CI/CD support for internal customers
  • Configuration management (Ansible, Packer, Terraform)
  • Continuous delivery on Kubernetes (Gitlab-CI, Buildkite, Github Actions)
  • Migration of CI pipelines from Gitlab-CI to Buildkite
Senior System Administrator / Teamlead

Feb 2020 - Nov 2020

  • Built a provider independed Kubernetes provisioner (Ansible)
  • Continuous delivery on Kubernetes (Gitlab-CI, Buildkite)
  • Cost-efficient hosting of on-premise database clusters (Elasticsearch, Redis Cluster, Postgres)
  • Mentoring a trainee project (Monitoring cluster infrastructure using open source technology)
  • Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus, Victoria-metrics, ELK, Thanos)
  • Working on a Kubernetes based game-server platform
Senior System Administrator / Teamlead
Zeuz GmbH

Jan 2019 - Feb 2020, Munich/Germany

Easy to use backend services for multiplayer games.

Responsibilities:
  • 30% cost savings by moving an Elasticsearch cluster from cloud to on-premise
  • Built a cost-efficient provider independed Docker Swarm provisioner (Ansible)
  • Built a Docker-Swarm based game-server platform
  • Continuous security scanning using Gitlab
  • Mentoring a trainee
  • Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus, Victoria-metrics, ELK, Thanos)
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Senior System Administrator / DevOps Engineer
Daypaio GmbH

Jun 2018 - Jan 2019, Munich/Germany

CRM as a Service

Responsibilities:
  • 40% cost savings by moving a MongoDB cluster from cloud to on-premise
  • Configuration management (Ansible)
  • Continuous delivery of NodeJS Applications (Gitlab-CI)
  • Migration of CI/CD pipelines from Bamboo, Jenkins to Gitlab-CI
  • Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus stack)
  • Platform Administration (Google Workspace, Atlassian, Slack)
System Administrator / Teamlead Infrastructure
Draglet GmbH

Oct 2017 - May 2018, Munich/Germany

Cryptocurrency as a Service provider.

Responsibilities:
  • Administration of Crypto Assets
  • Cost-efficient hosting a MongoDB cluster on-premise
  • Firewall & VPN Administration (opnSense, OpenVPN, strongswan)
  • Huge cost savings by introducing configuration management (Ansible)
  • Migration of CI pipelines from Jenkins to Gitlab-CI
  • Monitoring & Alerting (Icinga, Prometheus)
  • Platform Administration (Google Workspace, Atlassian, Slack)
  • Recruiting team members
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System Administrator
Hörer und Flamme GmbH

Oct 2015 - Oct 2017, Munich/Germany

Telemarketing agency.

Responsibilities:
  • Automating data imports and exports for marketing campaigns
  • Cost savings by introducing configuration management (Ansible)
  • Cost-efficient device management using open source technology
  • Directory Administration (ActiveDirectory, AzureAD, LDAP, Univention Corporate Server)
  • Introduced CI/CD to existing PHP Applications which allowed to launch new projects many times faster (Gitlab-CI)
  • Monitoring & Alerting (Nagios, check_mk)
  • PBX Administration (Asterisk, Pascom MobyDick)
  • Running cost-efficient on-premise infrastructure (Proxmox, FreeNAS)
  • Running Firewall & VPN gateways using open source (pfSense, OpenVPN, strongswan)

Projects

Aboutme
Aboutme
maintainer March 2016 - Present

My CV and Aboutme Page.

dotfiles hugo golang CV Aboutme professional
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Dotfiles
Dotfiles
Package maintainer March 2016 - Present

Dotfiles that i use on my workstations

dotfiles archlinux macos hobby
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Mandelbulber2 AUR
Mandelbulber2 AUR
Package maintainer March 2018 - Present

Fractal raytracer

raytracing archlinux hobby
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home-infra
home-infra
maintainer March 2021 - Present

My Homelab running k3s & FluxCD

k3s gitops flux professional
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