You know the sales pitch, of course. If you work in the DevOps, Platform or SRE field you have probably made it yourself. Infrastructure as Code! The benefits are many, varied and self-evident: It’s reproducible! It’s self-documenting! It’s visible! It prevents mistakes! It lowers cost! It prevents drift! It prevents…

In my current role at a startup company, I’ve been fortunate to be entrusted with creating pretty much the whole of their operations and infrastructure from almost nothing — truly a worthwhile adventure and one of my proudest professional achievements. …

In the past years working at our startup as a Platform Team leader, I’ve learned a tremendous amount. Obviously, not all of these things can be distilled down to a list of a dozen items, but I thought it would be valuable to share just some of the insights I’ve…

In this post, I’ll speak a little about getting permission to move to Germany to live and work. Immigration rules are devilishly complicated, and change often, and I am most certainly no expert on this complex subject. …

Yes, Berlin has Techno, dance clubs, and parties. It also has (in its own grumpy way) one of the most inclusive and open cultures of any major capital. What is it like to work at a Berlin Startup? During the last interview I had with my future boss, he asked…

In my last post, I made some recommendations for how to get through the first round of interviews from the perspective of the hiring manager. …

Late 2016, I was on the bus, riding home from downtown Denver to my home in the north Front Range town of Longmont, Colorado, when an unusual notification chirped on my phone. It was from a Recruiter on LinkedIn, which wasn’t so unusual. As a working engineer in the Denver…

The market is hot, and the pay is great! But, how do you get hired? Here is what we look for when hiring an engineer at my company! It’s no secret that the market for DevOps Engineers is thriving and that those engineers with the required combination of skills, experience…