Welcome to my website!

My name is Henrik Gerdes. I'm a total nerd for information technology and have an absolute passion for solving specific, difficult and large-scale problems in computer science and project management. I love finding elegant & efficient ways to automate recurring tasks and provide their functionality in a user-friendly way to other people. Abstraction ForTheWin 🙌. I studied computer science at the University of Osnabrück (Germany) where I learned many low-level concepts for programming and architectural design. I did some projects with computer/game graphics, low-level socket programming, graph algorithms and implemented some algorithms for traditional AI problems. But most importantly, I acquired the skill for strategical problem-solving. While writing my bachelor's thesis on applying DevOps principles to the software development process, I worked at a local software company implementing these principles.

Now I'm working at that IT company in Munich as a Systems/DevOps engineer. I'm developing deployment strategies, craft cloud system architecture and design entire monitoring, alerting, maintenance and backup systems - primary based on OpenSource software. Right now I'm implementing ChatOps practices and expanding my knowledge of different cloud provider technologies, while further improving automated resource provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.

I love experimenting with different technologies and sharing my knowledge with others, even though if it might involve spending some quality time with your favorite rubber 🦆.

Check out my Blog where I document some of my experiences!