Patrick Plocke
Team Lead, Senior DevOps Engineer at Flaconi
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPatrick Plocke is a Berlin-based Team Lead and Senior DevOps Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, highly available infrastructures and leading migration efforts to AWS. He architects event-driven Kubernetes and serverless microservice platforms, codifies infrastructure with Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible, and runs observability stacks from Prometheus to Elasticsearch at scale. A hands-on leader, he drives DevOps-as-a-Service and self-service infrastructure while still contributing to open source—most notably enhancing the pwncat security tooling and projects under cytopia and devilbox. His background spans deep systems administration, security hardening, and CI/CD automation with Python and Bash, enabling low-downtime database and container migrations. Patrick’s mix of operational rigor and curiosity is reflected in unconventional pursuits like formal Wudang and Shaolin training, which inform his disciplined, persistent approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Shaolin Wushu, Shaolin Wushu at 少林俗家弚子 (Ma Son Shaolin Temple)Wudang Wushu, Wudang Wushu at 陈逵武院 (Chen Kui Wu Yuan)HSK 4, Mandarin Chinese, HSK 4, Mandarin Chinese at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityMedieninformatik, Medieninformatik at Beuth Hochschule für Technik BerlinComputer Science, Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinFachinformatiker Systemintegration, Computer Science, Awarded, Fachinformatiker Systemintegration, Computer Science, Awarded at Oberstufenzentrum Informationstechnik und Medizintechnik Berlin
German, English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
413reputation
538kreached
9answers
4questions
Github Skills (14)
python10
documentation10
security-testing9
testing8
reverse-shell8
port-forwarding8
xampp6
docker6
docker-compose6
macos6
php6
apache6
server6
dockerfile6
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
cytopia/pwncat
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
pwncat - netcat on steroids with Firewall, IDS/IPS evasion, bind and reverse shell, self-injecting shell and port forwarding magic - and its fully scriptable with Python (PSE)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 5 reviews, 530 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick appears to be focused on enhancing the functionality and documentation of the pwncat tool. They implemented new features in the codebase, fixed issues, and improved various components, as evidenced by the setup.py and documentation adjustments. These improvements were done to make the tool more powerful and user-friendly. The user also made modifications in the documentation files and source code which suggests an active role in improving the project's usability and functionality.
firewallnetcatport-forwardingpythonreverse-shell
cytopia/docker-terraform-docs
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Alpine-based multistage-build version of terraform-docs and terraform-docs-replace in multiple versions to be used for CI and other reproducible automations
Contributions:35 releases, 3 reviews, 153 commits in 3 years 6 months
multistageterraformalpinemultistage-dockerdocker
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