Carsten Lenz
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
Erbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolCarsten Lenz is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of focused experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently designing the Kubernetes platform for the Catena-X consortium at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. He combines deep hands-on skills across Windows and Linux environments with a strong emphasis on automation, standardization and Infrastructure as Code to deliver reliable, repeatable platforms. His background includes architecting on-premise OpenStack solutions and enterprise analytics platforms (IBM TM1/Planning Analytics), giving him uncommon fluency across legacy and modern stacks. An elected Eclipse Tractus-X committer, he contributes to open standards for automotive data ecosystems while keeping a pragmatic operations mindset. Based in Erbach, Germany, Carsten is equally comfortable writing Terraform or Helm charts as he is owning IT procurement and end-user support, which helps him bridge engineering and business needs. Colleagues rely on him for stable production systems and clear migration paths from traditional servers to Kubernetes-driven platforms.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Telekommunikationselektroniker, Telekommunikationselektroniker at Siemens-Nixdorf
German, English
Github Skills (94)
python10
automation10
ssh10
podman10
ansible10
docker10
docker-image10
kubeadm10
nextcloud10
network-configuration9
continuous-delivery9
django9
dms9
pipeline9
helm9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
catenax-ng/catenax-ng.github.io
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
https://catenax-ng.github.io
Contributions:73 reviews, 34 commits, 60 PRs in 7 months
typescriptinternalangular
carslen/ghwf
Jul 2022 - Jul 2025
Contributions:9 PRs, 113 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years
gatlingtestingloadtestingworkflow-testingworkflow
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