Night City

Christofher Koest

DevOps Engineer & Entrepreneur

Transforming Businesses Through Cloud Innovation

5+ Years Experience
50%+ Costs Efficiency
70% Companies Growth

About Me

As an expert in development operations (DevOps) with a business mindset from Wisepace, I help companies achieve peak efficiency within months. I collaborate with developers, implement automation solutions, and ensure end-to-end observability for applications and services while resolving business-level challenges with department leaders.

I dedicate my on-job free time to developing internal Golang tools that automate routine tasks for my team.

My technical leadership at Volkswagen Group has resulted in a 60%+ efficiency boost and the successful mentoring of seven operation engineers.

Efficiency Boost

60%+

Average Result

Team Growth

7

Engineers Mentored

What I Do

Cloud Architecture

Building most cost-efficient applications via AWS and Azure cloud using managed and serverless solutions.

GitOps & CD

Implementing continuous delivery following GitOps best practices (AppOfApps principle) via ArgoCD and Flux.

Kubernetes

5+ years experience managing clusters, operators, applications, and stateful/stateless workloads.

Cost Optimization

Achieved 50%+ cost reduction in most companies through operational and infrastructure optimizations.

Performance

Significantly improved pipeline speeds and application performance through code optimizations.

Process Design

Built various processes from scratch including release management, development workflows, and risk analysis.

Work Experience

1

Present

Consultant & Founder @ Wisepace

Nov 2024 - Present

2

CARIAD Estonia AS (VAG)

Site Reliability Engineer

May 2024 - Present

3

LookinLabs

Founder

Jun 2024 - Nov 2024

4

LHV

Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

DevOps Engineer

Oct 2023 - Jan 2024

5

TEHIK

Platform Engineering Lead

Feb 2023 - Oct 2023

Platform Engineer

Jun 2021 - Feb 2023

Linux System Administrator

Apr 2020 - Jun 2021

6

Telia Estonia AS

Internship

July 2019 - Dec 2019

Skills & Technologies

Cloud Platforms

AWS Azure VMWare

Infrastructure as Code

AWS CDK CloudFormation Bicep Terraform Ansible

CI/CD & Artifacts

Github Actions Gitlab CI ArgoCD Artifactory Nexus

Containers

Kubernetes Docker Rancher Longhorn

Observability

NewRelic CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Zabbix Azure Monitor

Programming

PHP Golang Python Shell Java Kotlin JavaScript

Data & Authentication

SQL NoSQL OAuth JWT SSO

Message Queues

RabbitMQ AWS SQS Azure Service Bus

Networking

VPN NAT BGP Network Segmentation

Security

Pentesting Vulnerability Assessment Security Best Practices

Professional Certifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

2023
GitOps Fundamentals

GitOps Fundamentals

Codefresh

2023
GitOps at Scale

GitOps at Scale

Codefresh

2023

Let's Connect

Thank you for taking the time to explore my portfolio. As a DevOps Engineer and Entrepreneur, I'm passionate about creating efficient, scalable solutions and helping businesses thrive through technology.

Whether you're looking for a DevOps consultant, interested in cloud solutions, or want to discuss potential collaborations, I'm always open to new opportunities and challenges.