Tobias Trabelsi

BSc

About Me

I design and lead platform engineering initiatives to enable teams to build the future: I focus on automating repetitive work, standardizing infrastructure and developer workflows by delivering self-service platforms that improve developer experience and operational reliability; my leadership bridges engineering, product, and operations to align teams, streamline processes, and empower people through a scalable, secure and highly automated platform.

Languages

German (Native)

English (Fluent)

Spanish (Basic)

Hobbies

Music (Guitar)

Martial Arts (Judo, Tae-Kwon-Do)

Cooking

Technology / DevOps

Experiences

Head of DevOps Platform

Schenker AG · 12.2023 - current

Platform / Engineering / IT Operations

DevOps Engineer

Schenker AG · 04.2022 - 12.2023

Platform / Engineering / IT Operations

DevOps Specialist

SonarSource GmbH · 04.2020 - 04.2022

Operability / Engineering / IT Operations

IT Systems Engineer

Escrypt GmbH · 04.2018 - 04.2020

IT Operations / DevOps / System administration

Student

Escrypt GmbH · 11.2016 - 04.2018

IT Operations / DevOps / System administration

C++/QT Developer

QuantumBytes Inc. · 07.2015 - 07.2017

Network programming / Game development

Tutor

Hochschule Bochum · 03.2016 - 08.2016

C++ / Modern Web Technologies II

Student assistant

Hochschule Bochum · 09.2014 - 08.2016

System administration / Lab supervision

Internship (IT Support)

WestLB Düsseldorf · 05.2011 - 07.2011

Internship (IT)

LVR Klinikum Essen · 02.2011

Civil Service

LVR Klinikum Essen · 08.2010 - 01.2011

Addiction Medicine and Drug Detoxification Clinic

Education

Bachelor of Science

Hochschule Bochum - Bochum University of Applied Sciences · 2013 - 2018

Thesis: Development and evaluation of a generic, agile hybrid cloud infrastructure

Computer Science Studies

Fachhochschule Bingen · 2011 - 2013

Projects

Bitwarden CRD Operator

Bitwarden CRD Operator is a kubernetes Operator based on kopf. The goal is to create kubernetes native secret objects from bitwarden.

Documentation

Multitenant java heap dump solution

As the filesystem in Kubernetes pods is not directly accessable we developed a sidecar approach where written heap dumps are collected and stored in an encrypted format on a central S3 Bucket per cluster

Gitea Terraform Provider

Terraform Provider for Gitea. I developed and maintained the provider for several years on my own and merged with gitea upstream in 2023

Documentation

Skills

Java, Python, C++, PHP, Golang, Swift, Groovy

CI/CD, Drone, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins

Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ArgoCD, Flux2