Julian Kandler

Enterprise Architect with professional IT experience since 2017, focused on Linux, Infrastructure as Code, automation, containerization, and DevOps. Hands-on with Terraform, Ansible, Docker/Podman, GitHub Actions, and AWS — and builds and operates self-hosted infrastructure projects outside of work to explore the same practices end to end, including the site you're looking at right now.

💼 Career

Capgemini Jul 2022 – present

Enterprise Architect — Cloud Architect Apr 2024 – present · Cloud Architect Oct 2022 – Dec 2022 · Tech Lead Jul 2022 – Sep 2022

Infrastructure change coordination Apr 2024 – present

Coordinate infrastructure changes, imports, and reshaping as Cloud Architect.

Vehicle data platform reliability Sep 2023 – Dec 2023

Received, processed, stored, and provided vehicle data.
Ensured the infrastructure was production-ready for go-live.
Built automated snapshots and continuous backups of the database.
Wrote disaster-recovery runbooks and set up monitoring and alerting.

Terraform · Datadog · AWS Backup · GitHub Actions

Multi-account AWS infrastructure rollout Jul 2022 – Aug 2023

Designed a scalable solution for rolling out infrastructure across up to 400 AWS accounts.
Led conceptualization and development, coordinating with business and dev-team stakeholders.

Terraform · GitHub Actions · AWS API Gateway · EventBridge · CodeBuild

Exxeta AG Jan 2017 – Jun 2022

Senior Consultant Jan 2020 – Jun 2022 · Consultant Jan 2017 – Dec 2019

Vehicle workshop appointment portal Feb 2020 – Jun 2022

Built a new portal for scheduling vehicle workshop appointments from the ground up.
Developed front-end and back-end application logic, with infrastructure provisioned via CI/CD.
Set up automated testing and monitoring.

Angular · Spring Boot · Kotlin · Concourse · New Relic · AWS

Retail sample planning portal May 2019 – Dec 2019

Built a portal to plan and control retail sample scheduling.
Developed the front-end and back-end application logic.

Angular · Spring Boot · PCF

Customer vehicle-profile portal Apr 2017 – Apr 2019

Extended a customer portal for managing and configuring vehicle profiles.
Developed front-end and back-end application logic.

Angular · Spring Boot · PCF

Reusable CMS components Jan 2017 – Mar 2017

Built new, reusable components for a content-management system.

Adobe AEM · Java · JavaScript

HUK-Coburg Versicherungsgruppe Feb 2013 – Dec 2013

Internship / Working Student

🎓 Education

M.Sc. Information Technology and Enterprise Applications 2015 – 2017
Hochschule Coburg
B.Sc. Information Technology 2009 – 2015
Hochschule Coburg

🧠 Skills

Infrastructure & cloud: AWS (API Gateway, EKS, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS, SES, Secrets Manager, Fargate, CodePipeline, IAM/OIDC) · Docker · Podman · Kubernetes / k3s · Terraform · Ansible · Traefik
Linux & systems: Debian · SUSE Linux Enterprise · Bash / shell scripting · systemd · libvirt/KVM · DNS, TLS & network troubleshooting · IPv4/IPv6
CI/CD: GitHub Actions (incl. self-hosted runners) · Concourse · Jenkins
Observability: Prometheus · Grafana · Alertmanager · Datadog · New Relic
Security: GPG · pass · SOPS · Trivy · Black Duck
Databases: PostgreSQL
Languages & frameworks: Java · Kotlin · Python · Spring Boot · Maven · Gradle · TypeScript · JavaScript · Angular · Node.js · Grunt
Self-hosted platforms & AI: Nextcloud · Open WebUI · OpenAI API integration
Tools: IntelliJ · VS Code (Dev Containers) · WSL2 · Git · GitHub · Jira · Confluence
Methodologies: Agile · Scrum · SAFe · DevOps
Spoken languages: German — native · English — business fluent · Chinese — beginner

🏡 Personal

Lives in Filderstadt, near Stuttgart, born in 1989. Shares his home with two cats, Miumiu and Baozi. Enjoys traveling and keeps a large plant collection with a soft spot for growing chilis — and tinkers with personal home-lab and infrastructure projects in his free time, including the site you're looking at right now.

✉️ Contact

Feel free to reach out or connect.

👤 Profile