Carl-Christian Sautter - Cloud und Software Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Carl Christian Sautter

My great technical interest in the IT field developed early. As a teenager, I was already very enthusiastic about PC technology and programming and discovered my potential in the field. To expand this understanding, I decided to study media technology.
Besides my studies, I was looking for additional challenges and therefore got engaged in the racing team of the "Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden", Technical University of Applied Sciences as the head of the non-technical area. I was also employed as a working student at Octobo GmbH (Otto Group) in the area of SEO tool development.
After finishing my studies, I was taken on by Octobo GmbH and worked there as a software developer from 2015 to 2018. Since February 2018 I am employed by F&P GmbH as a Senior Software Engineer and support the team in the role as Senior Cloud Engineer since January 2022.
As part of my self-employment, I have been fulfilling orders in the field of web development, software development and IT infrastructure since 2011.

My skills

Cloud Engineering

I am an experienced cloud engineer with expertise in AWS, GCP and Kubernetes as well as migrating on-premise services. I attach particular importance to a highly available and secure infrastructure while at the same time being cost-effective. I also have experience in setting up and operating on-premise Kubernetes clusters.

Software Engineering

My expertise in the area of software development includes the rapid capture of complex software systems and the identification of optimization potential. I have several years of practice in software development of projects with a code base of a few million lines. Thanks to my experience and analytical and creative approach, I often find innovative solutions for the new development of software systems.

DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering

For me, DevOps is much more than just a tool or a technology. It is an essential mindset to meet the ever-changing demands of modern product development. I am well versed in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to support an implementation of the DevOps philosophy.

Agile Mindset

As a software developer with an agile mindset, SCRUM and Kanban are familiar methods for me that allow me to react flexibly on changing requirements. I am quite open for changes and continuous development. In this process, I always keep the customer value in focus.

Resume

over 10 years of experience

Experience

Jan. 2022 - to date

F&P GmbH

Senior Cloud Engineer

At F&P, I was responsible for key engineering tasks for the further development and international growth of an online community with several million members:

Development of Terraform modules (e.g. AWS EKS, AWS VPC, monitoring and logging)
Migrating on-prem hosted services to the AWS cloud and Kubernetes. Operation of services in the cloud
Connecting AWS projects with on-prem locations via an AWS Transit Gateway
Building and operating a scalable Gitlab CI/CD infrastructure in the AWS Cloud for the parallel processing of >200 CI/CD jobs
Development of CI/CD pipelines with unit and integration tests, static code analysis, build processes, security scans and deployments
Building and operating a Kubernetes cluster (Rancher) in the on-prem infrastructure

Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

F&P GmbH

Senior Software Engineer

Architecture and development of software modules for internationalization (multilingual, translation workflow, technical SEO)
Migrating on-premise hosted services to Kubernetes (AWS EKS) using Terraform and Helm and operating the services in the cloud
Development and operation of a tracking solution based on Matomo, Kubernetes (GKE) and BigQuery
Further development and performance optimization of the local Docker development environment for mobile use during the Covid-19 crisis

Feb 2018 - Dec 2019

F&P GmbH

Software Developer

Further development of the community profile area
Optimizing the development workflow by migrating the development environment to locally running Docker containers
Technical SEO analysis and monitoring to measure success using web crawlers, BigQuery and Google DataStudio
Improving SEO rankings through the new development and optimization of SEO features

Feb 2015 - Jan 2018

Octobo GmbH (a member of the Otto Group)

Software Developer

For the in-house SEO agency Octobo I developed custom-fit SEO tools for ecommerce websites of the Otto Group (e.g. baur.de):

Architecture, development and operation of a web crawler with approx. 2000 nodes
Further development of a service for SEO text optimization
Analysis and performance measurement of SEO measures with Exasol and Tableau

Mar 2014 - Aug 2014

Octobo GmbH (a member of the Otto Group)

Working student in the field of search engine optimization (SEO)

As a working student for Octobo GmbH, I was able to gain extensive experience in the areas of SEO analysis and optimization as well as web development in the e-commerce environment.

2012 - 2017

InVerTec eV (institute in cooperation with the University of Bayreuth)

Part-time IT administration and web development

My tasks for InVerTec primarily relate to IT administration and the maintenance of the homepage, as well as the development of conference and project websites.

2011 - present

part-time

Freelancer

During my studies, I managed projects in the areas of web development, IT and media independently and continue to do so on a part-time basis.

Certificates and Courses

Aug 2023

AWS

AWS Knowledge: Cloud Essentials

Badge - AWS Knowledge: Cloud Essentials

Feb 2021

Udemy

Python for Financial Analysis and Algorithmic Trading

Jan 2019

Udemy

Data Science: Deep Learning in Python

March 2018

Udemy

Elasticsearch and Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch 6 and Elastic Stack - In Depth and Hands On!

Jan 2018

Udemy

Django - Web Framework (Python)

Django Core | A Reference Guide to Core Django Concepts

Oct 2017

Udemy

Python for Data Science and Machine Learning

Jan 2017

Udemy

python

The Complete Python Bootcamp From Zero to Hero in Python

2015

IHK

Certificate as a trainer for vocational training

Education

2010 - 2015

East Bavarian Technical University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden

Bachelor of Media Engineering (B.Eng.)

Studied media engineering with a focus on software and web development.

2014 - 2015

Octobo GmbH (a member of the Otto Group)

Bachelor's thesis: Techniques for text and link masking in the course of search engine optimization of websites

As part of my bachelor's thesis, I developed and tested novel techniques for text and link masking. I technically analyzed the self-developed and existing masking techniques and examined their benefits. (Grade: 1.0)

2010 - 2012

East Bavarian Technical University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden

Lead of the non-technical area of the racing team at the East Bavarian Technical University

Besides my studies, I found an additional challenge in the Formula Student Racing Team of the East Bavarian Technical University Amberg, as head of the non-technical department.
My tasks included: sponsoring, maintenance of the homepage, production of image films, 3D visualizations, public relations, planning of events.
In addition, I participated in the international Formula Student competitions in Great Britain, Germany and Hungary.

Infrastructure skills

AWS

95%

Kubernetes

95%

Terraform

95%

Docker/Containers

95%

Linux

95%

helm

70%

Saltstack

70%

Networks

80%

Prometheus / Grafana

70%

Elasticstack (Elasticsearch, Kibana)

70%

Google Cloud - GCP

65%

Azure

50%

Coding skills

python

80%

Pearl

90%

Bash

90%

PHP

95%

JavaScript

85%

TypeScript

85%

Java

60%

C/C++

60%

Database skills

SQL

90%

NoSQL

90%

MySQL/MariaDB

90%

MongoDB

90%

Redis

90%

Memcached

80%