Christoph Mertz
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Mertz is a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency backend systems across fintech, AI, and cloud-native startups in Berlin. He excels at evolving MVPs into production-grade platforms—recently scaling Apheris’ infrastructure and migrating IaC from cdk-py to multi-region Terraform while delivering customer-managed compute gateways and high-throughput Kubernetes controllers. Christoph combines deep hands-on skills in Go, Kubernetes, gitops and IaC with a track record of lowering defect rates through automated validation (OPA, OpenAPI) and performance debugging of large FluxCD deployments. He’s also a pragmatic technical leader who introduced Go at his organization, ran ~40 interviews, and bootstrapped internal training programs to raise team capability. An early systems tinkerer, he contributed test automation to the well-known awesome window manager project, demonstrating attention to reliability even in desktop tooling.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Universite de LorraineDiplom (FH), Computer Science, Diplom (FH), Computer Science at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes SaarbrückenMaîtrise en génie mathematique et informatique, Computer Science, Maîtrise en génie mathematique et informatique, Computer Science at Institut Supérieur Franco-Allemand de Techniques, d'Economie et de Sciences
German, English, French
Github Skills (7)
lua10
awesomewm10
window-manager10
testing10
xorg5
c174
c114
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awesomeWM/awesome
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
awesome window manager
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Christoph focused on improving the testing framework and ensuring the correct behavior of the Awesome window manager. Their commits include adding and modifying tests related to client window properties like `border_width` and screen focus behavior. Specifically, they've written tests for maximizing, restoring client borders, and screen focus navigation. The user also extracted testing code for screen directions, contributing to enhanced code testability.
window-managerluacxorg
cmertz/hashmap
Sep 2012 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 4 years
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