Christian_Winkler  
I'm an IT specialist based in Bavaria, Germany.
Here you'll find all important details about me and what I'm doing.
Take a look at some of my work below.
Chris.currentLocation
"92421 Schwandorf, Germany"
Chris.skills
[ "Kubernetes", "CI/CD", "TypeScript", "Python", "Proxmox", "Ansible", "*NIX systems" ]
Chris.education
"Medieninformatik / Informationswissenschaft - University of Regensburg"
Chris.contactInfo
Chris.interests
[ "technology", "homelabs & self-hosting", "hiking & climbing", "gaming" ]
 

Working Experience

TIKI GmbH

DevOps Engineer (July 2022 - Present)

The Technologisches Institut für angewandte künstliche Intelligenz is a research-driven startup accelerating AI adoption and digital transformation for small and medium companies. Key responsibilities include:

  • Overseeing multiple on-premise Kubernetes Cluster hosting ML / AI workloads
  • Developing, testing, debugging and troubleshooting of containerized infrastructure
  • Monitoring system and service health, ensuring optimal availability and performance
  • Driving CI/CD and automation bot

BMW Group AG

Bachelor's Degree Candidate (October 2017 - February 2018)

Process optimization at the BMW plant Regensburg in the innovation lab in one of the main assembly units. The focus of this interdisciplinary department is the agile development of Industry 4.0 solutions. Over the course of five months I wrote my thesis with the topic:

  • "Conception, design and implementation of a realtime dashboard application"

BMW Group AG

Internship (March 2016 - December 2016)

Process optimization at the BMW plant Regensburg. Main focus of the department is to shorten temporal sequences and therefore reducing manufactoring costs. Over the course of nine months my work consisted of the following projects:

  • Proof-of-Concept for the efficient search of files on the intranet
  • Development of a web-based error detection system
  • Development of a web-based video platform
  • Implementation of a dashboard platform

SAP SE

Internship (March 2014 - April 2014)

Global Legal IT & Intellectual Property Group at the SAP Lab in Walldorf. Over the course of two months my work consisted of the following focus areas:

  • Analysis and processing of proof-of-concepts (SOW, NDA, Support Agreements)
  • Preparation and audit of NDAs
  • Evaluation of open source licences

Projects

DiPKo Website

A responsive website for a companys' project kick-off built with Bootstrap.

HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript (ES5)

G-Bot

A robot built with LEGO® Mindstorms which can be controlled by hand gestures via the Leap Motion Controller. This project was developed at the Hackaburg 2017 hackathon.

HTML5 Node.js Raspberry Pi Leap Motion Controller

TowerDefense.py

A simple Tower Defense game built in Python 2.7 using the PyGame library.

Python

Tamaguino

A tamagotchi clone for the Arduino.
For this project, a stuffed animal was modified and expanded with a microcotroller to enable a tangible gaming experience with various interaction and feedback possibilities.

C / C++ Arduino Micro

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