TECHNICAL LEAD / ARCHITECT WITH HANDS-ON MENTALITY

Tech Lead for cloud, DevOps, and AI initiatives.

Hi, I'm Christian. I take technical ownership in platform, AI, and cloud projects. My goal? To bridge thoughtful target architecture and stress-free, stable operations – together with strong teams.

12+ years of experienceTeam Lead (2–10 people)K8s & Azure platformsHands-on AI integration

Cloud-native architecture · Kubernetes · DevOps · AI integration

SERVICE MODEL

Three capability areas that work together

DevOps, Platform & Operations

Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring – reproducible rollouts instead of constant firefighting.

AI Integration

LLMs and agents where interfaces and operations are sound – including legacy via MCP and APIs.

Cloud Architecture

Target architectures and guardrails that hold under real constraints and compliance.

ENGAGEMENT FORMATS

Three ways to work with me

Clear deliverables, knowledge transfer, no lock-in.

Tech Lead mandate

3–9 months

Cadence

2–4 days / week

Mode

Primarily remote

End-to-end architectural responsibility
Hands-on work and mentoring
Documentation, runbooks, and handover

Architecture Audit

2–4 weeks

Cadence

Focused

Mode

Remote + 1–2 on-site

Stakeholder interviews and architecture review
Audit report with roadmap
Optional handover into engagement

Workshop

1–3 days

Cadence

Compact

Mode

On-site or remote

Hands-on tied to your environment
Take-home artifacts and repos

PROJECTS

Selected references

Kubernetes platform with capability transfer

Mid-sized industrial client, DACH

Context: Greenfield setup of an on-premises Kubernetes platform for multiple containerized services – in an industrial company without existing platform expertise on the team.

Role: Architecture and implementation of cluster, ingress, storage, deployment standards, and monitoring. Structured knowledge transfer to the technical contact in parallel.

Outcome: Reproducible infrastructure with Ansible and Helm, significantly less operational overhead. The internal contact runs the platform independently today.

Enterprise loyalty platform

Retail, multiple sub-project teams

Context: Greenfield development of a customer-facing loyalty and bonus platform (app, backend, couponing, integrations) for end customers – set within mature corporate structures and legacy IT, coordinated across multiple sub-project teams.

Role: Technical project leadership with responsibility for architecture decisions, guardrails, and coordination across sub-project boundaries – including integration with existing and SAP-adjacent systems.

Outcome: Clearer technical guardrails, more stable integration flows into a mature system landscape, and faster delivery of new features despite distributed responsibilities.

AI voice assistant for VoIP

Telecommunications, conference showcase

Context: Innovation project to integrate AI assistants into an existing telephony infrastructure in a production-adjacent way – presented as a tech teaser at an industry conference.

Role: Target architecture, definition of interfaces between AI and telephony, iterative prototype implementation.

Outcome: A working prototype with a clear statement on how LLM capabilities can be meaningfully connected to production-adjacent systems – without ignoring architecture and operations.

CAREER

Progressive growth in engineering, responsibility, and leadership

2026 – present

IT Consultant / Cloud & DevOps Architect

Christian Ego – Cloud, DevOps & AI Consulting

Freelance cloud architect, DevOps engineer, and AI integrator for startups and mid-sized companies.
Platform engineering: Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, IaC
AI integration: LLM systems, RAG, MCP, API connectivity
Technical project leadership and architectural ownership

2018 – 2026

Technical Project Lead & Platform Engineer

Architectural ownership across multiple parallel platform and integration projects.
Leading development teams (2–10 people) and moderating technical decision processes.
Design and build of Kubernetes-based platforms including provisioning, deployment strategies, ingress routing, and monitoring.
Standardization of CI/CD processes and infrastructure-as-code approaches in project environments.
Technical steering of Azure serverless architectures and integration solutions with SAP and API connectivity.

2016 – 2018

Building and establishing DevOps practices

Gradual build-up of DevOps responsibility within existing development projects.
Introduction of container-based infrastructure with Docker and structured deployment pipelines.
Design of automated build and release processes to reduce manual intervention.
Technical responsibility for operational handovers and stabilization of production environments.

2014 – 2016

Software Developer

Development of B2B platforms in enterprise environments.
Backend and integration development with a focus on maintainable system architectures.
Participation in agile project structures with growing technical responsibility.

2008 – 2014

Computer Science studies (Bachelor & Master of Science)

Augsburg University of Applied Sciences

Master's degree with a focus on software architecture and distributed systems.
Research project in intelligent traffic management agent systems.
Publication of a chapter in the book "Agent Systems in Automation Engineering".
Presentation at the Mobil.TUM scientific conference.

During studies

Freelance projects

Independent delivery of software projects for smaller clients.
Direct client communication, requirements gathering, and technical implementation.
Early responsibility for conception, development, and delivery of production systems.

METHODOLOGY

Build for handover, not dependency

Structured onboarding

Interviews, inventory, and risk map as the starting point.

Documentation & pair-working

ADRs, runbooks, and hands-on in the team – no consultant black box.

Handover

Explicit transfer phase, optional standby afterwards.

HOW I WORK

Direct, hands-on, no detours

One point of contact from architecture through delivery. Most projects start with a short intro call.

12+ years in platform, cloud, and integration projects
Kubernetes, Azure, Terraform, TypeScript, LLM/MCP – stack-flexible
Working with CTOs, Heads of IT, and platform teams
Based in Augsburg, Germany – primarily remote across DACH

CONTACT

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