Roland Kahlert
Platform Engineer
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRoland Kahlert is a Senior DevOps Engineer and Tech Lead with 10 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and data-driven products across consulting and enterprise environments. He has led platform and data teams at PwC and Forvis Mazars, driving DevOps adoption, Kubernetes-based scalability, and ML-powered audit tooling that halved manual work and accelerated time-to-market. Comfortable both experimenting with bleeding-edge tech like Azure OpenAI and Pragmatic delivery, he builds self-service portals, automated CI/CD pipelines, and EU-hosted RAG solutions while keeping developer experience front and center. His background spans low-level optimization in C++ to PySpark data lakes and PDF NLP services, reflecting a rare blend of algorithmic rigor and platform engineering. Based in Düsseldorf, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with a taste for coffee-fueled platform craftsmanship and a knack for turning complex problems into simple, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at TU Dortmund UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Düsseldorf
Github Skills (77)
parser10
python10
pdfminer10
pdf10
smartmeter10
rest9
blockchain9
java9
spring-boot9
imagemagick8
image-manipulation8
image-processing7
twitter7
scripting7
gql7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RolandColored/smartmeter
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Gather meter data to analyze resource usage in households
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years 7 months
raspberry-pismartmetermetergathermonitoring
neozo-software/jblockchain
Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
jblockchain: Einfache Blockchain-Implementierung für Demonstrationszwecke
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 3 years 3 months
blockchainjavaspring-bootrest
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