Lennart Krauch

Cloud Platform / Kubernetes Engineer

Cloud Platform Engineer at inovex GmbH. I build a Kubernetes-based Database-⁠as-⁠a-⁠Service for PostgreSQL, SQL Server and MongoDB, with in-house operators written in Go.

Currently
Cloud Platform Engineer at inovex GmbH, since Mar. 2025
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Experience

Sep. 2022 – Present

inovex GmbH

  1. Cloud Platform Engineer

    • Building a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform on Kubernetes supporting PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MongoDB
    • Developing internal Kubernetes Operators in Go to automate database lifecycle management and serving logic
    • Modularizing Terraform infrastructure and implementing monitoring for large-scale database serving across multiple worker clusters
    • Building additional internal tools and supporting operators
    • Go
    • Kubernetes Operators
    • PostgreSQL
    • Terraform
    • Monitoring
    • DBaaS
  2. Working Student (Cloud Platform Engineering)

    • Ensured a seamless handover of the scrumlr.io infrastructure and operations to colleagues
    • Maintained operational stability of the app during the transition period
    • Created comprehensive technical documentation
    • Kubernetes
    • FluxCD
    • Technical Documentation
  3. Working Student IT Engineering & Operations

    • Development of Kubernetes infrastructure for scrumlr.io, including cluster deployment automation and Git versioning with FluxCD
    • Setup of high-availability PostgreSQL clusters and backup infrastructure
    • Implementation of monitoring components including Grafana dashboards and alerts
    • Development of infrastructure for AI model serving using BentoML for text and image generation models
    • Mentoring and supporting development teams in infrastructure and DevOps practices
    • Kubernetes
    • Terraform
    • FluxCD
    • GitLab CI/CD
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • BentoML
    • OpenStack
  4. IT Engineering & Operations Intern

    • Supported the development of ParrotApp, a generative AI service platform
    • Containerized solutions using GitLab pipelines with Kaniko
    • Implemented monitoring and alerting systems
    • Assisted in GPU infrastructure setup for AI model deployment
    • Python
    • Docker
    • GitLab
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • BentoML

Skills

Programming Languages
  • Go
  • Python
  • Bash
  • SQL
Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenStack
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GCP
DevOps Tools
  • Terraform
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • FluxCD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Helm
  • Ansible
  • BentoML
Webservers & LB
  • Nginx
  • Apache
  • Traefik
  • Caddy
  • HAProxy
Monitoring & Databases
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Victoria Metrics
  • InfluxDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • SQLite
Development Tools
  • Git
  • VSCode
  • Vim
  • Zed

Education & Certification

2020 – 2025

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Hochschule Karlsruhe – University of Applied Sciences

Measuring and Optimizing CO2 Emissions of a Kubernetes-based Cloud Application

Bachelor thesis, written at inovex GmbH, Aug. 2024 – Nov. 2024

Analyzed the carbon footprint of cloud-native infrastructure and implemented optimization strategies

  • GreenIT
  • Prometheus
  • Optimization
  • Cloud Infrastructure
2023

LFS458: Kubernetes Administration, The Linux Foundation

2023

Scrum Foundations Certificate, Scrum.org