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Octavian Helm

Octavian Helm

(he/him)

reason before dogma

Senior Platform Engineer at BearingPoint

Vienna, Vienna, Austria🇦🇹
Open to:Full-time rolesBoard positionsMentoring others
Preferred workplace:On-siteHybridRemote (same region)
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devops practitioner, 20+ years of linux experience, automater, former pythonista, active gopher

passionate about open source, web and social

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Career: 13

Senior Platform Engineer

BearingPoint

Vienna, Vienna, AT · Hybrid

Jan 2025 - Present

▪ Internal Developer Platform design ▪ Team transformation ▪ Knowledge management ▪ Driving initiatives ▪ Product management ▪ Operating and evolving an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes via Strimzi Operator with GitOps (ArgoCD)

KubernetesApache KafkaArgoCDGitOpsStrimziIT OperationsSoftware DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementTransformationIT Consulting

Technical Director

SmartDigital Group

Tulln, Lower Austria, AT · Hybrid

Jan 2024 - Jul 2024

▪ Transition process analysis and planning ▪ Defining candidate profiles ▪ Interviewing candidates ▪ Project management ▪ Strategic technical roadmap and development planning ▪ Technical debt reduction ▪ Leading an agile team of 6 developers ▪ New product planning and design ▪ Use case development ▪ Requirements gathering ▪ Continued DevOps responsibilities from prior role at Integrated Object Oriented Satellite Information GmbH

Lead DevOps Engineer

Integrated Objectoriented Satellite Information

Hybrid

Sep 2023 - Dec 2023

Note: A subsidiary of SmartDigital Group DevOps Engineering • Managing GitLab CI pipelines • Optimising Docker builds • Maintaining Kubernetes deployments • Managing and evolving GCP infrastructure via Terraform/Terragrunt (IaC) Linux Server & Services Administration • Ubuntu Server, Proxmox • AI tooling (CVAT, FiftyOne, etc.) • Prometheus/Grafana deployment • FlashBlade array (data backup and migrations) Satellite Data Processing — Product Development • Use case development • Product integration

Head of DevOps Engineering

LEAN-CODERS

Hybrid

Mar 2023 - Aug 2023

▪ DevOps Engineering — continued responsibilities from prior role ▪ Building and managing a small DevOps team ▪ Delivering Docker/Kubernetes training for external partners

Senior DevOps Engineer

LEAN-CODERS

Hybrid

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

DevOps Engineering ▪ Maintaining and optimising GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, Docker builds, and Kubernetes deployments Systems Administration (Microsoft Stack) ▪ Azure AD ▪ Microsoft 365 ▪ Exchange administration Azure Cloud Infrastructure Management ▪ Codifying existing infrastructure as Terraform (IaC)

Senior DevOps Consultant

Consensium Processing Services

Remote

Aug 2022 - Jun 2023

Note: A subsidiary of SmartDigital Group DevOps Engineering ▪ Creating and managing GitLab CI pipelines ▪ Application containerisation ▪ Authoring and maintaining Kubernetes manifests ▪ Managing and evolving GCP infrastructure via Terraform (IaC) ▪ Developing data pipelines using ArgoCD Workflows and Events ▪ Monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana Software Development (Scala, Go, Python)

DevOps/Software Engineer

University of Graz

On-site

Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

DevOps Engineering ▪ Creating GitLab CI pipelines ▪ Managing Jenkins pipelines ▪ Application containerisation Web presence maintenance and development (TYPO3/PHP) Developing web components for the University of Graz web stack

Technical Assistant — Psychology Department

University of Graz

On-site

Mar 2019 - Jul 2022

▪ IT systems administration ▪ Infrastructure management via SaltStack and Ansible ▪ Psychology Institute web presence administration ▪ Building and operating a human-robot interaction research lab ▪ Robot development (Python) ▪ Software development (Python, .NET/C#) ▪ Installing and operating an on-premises Kubernetes cluster

Interpreter

Styrian Regional Police Directorate

On-site

Jan 2018 - Dec 2020

▪ Interpreter for police witness interviews and suspect interrogations ▪ Telephone surveillance support for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)

Freelance Fullstack Engineer

competence.rocks

Dec 2013 - Dec 2020

▪ Hardware and software project delivery (GPS tracking, CRM development) ▪ General IT support ▪ High-availability systems (DB clustering and replication) ▪ Web development

Full Stack Engineer

AEH Automatisierung

On-site

Jan 2012 - Dec 2013

▪ Frontend development (mobile web) ▪ Backend development (Python, Node.js, Perl) ▪ Linux server and services deployment ▪ Hardware and software contract delivery

Lead Android Applications Developer

House of Technology

On-site

Jan 2009 - Dec 2011

▪ Developing a location-based marketing application (Java — Android) ▪ Onboarding and mentoring interns

Technical IT Support

Inode GmbH/UPC Austria GmbH

On-site

Aug 2006 - Dec 2008

▪ First-line support (telephone and email) ▪ Developing an internal router configuration simulator for training and support

Education: 1

HTL BULME Graz

Electronics / Computer Engineering with a specialisation in Networking

Volunteering: 2

Board Member

Cloud Native Austria

Oct 2025 - Present

Organiser

Cloud Native Days Austria

Oct 2025 - Present

Languages: 3

German(Native or bilingual)
Romanian(Native or bilingual)
English(Full professional)

Skills: 82

Business

IT ConsultingProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

Other

Analytisches ProblemlösenAndroidApache KafkaArgoCDAuthentifizierungAzure ADBudgetmanagementCascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Computer-HardwareConfluentContainerizationContinuous Integration und Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)CouchDBCVATDatacenterDeutschDevOpsDockerElectronicsEnglischEntwicklung von SchulungenGitHubGitlabGitOpsGoGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)GrafanaGreen SoftwareHashiCorpHohe VerfügbarkeitHTML5Infrastructure as code (IaC)IT OperationsIT-BetriebIT-InfrastrukturIT-ProjektmanagementIT-StrategieJavaJavaScriptKerberosKommunikationKubernetesLinuxLinux-ServerManagement des technischen PersonalsMicrosoft AzureMongoDBNode.jsObservabilityPearlPHPPostgreSQLPresalesProblemlösungProduktentwicklungPrometheusPrometheus.ioPythonPython (Programmiersprache)RumänischSaltStackScalaScriptingShell-ScriptingSoftware DevelopmentStrimziTeam-BuildingTeamführungTeammanagementTerraformTransformationUnternehmensstrategieVaultVerhandlungsführungVMwareWebentwicklungWebservicesWissensmanagementZuverlässigkeit

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