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.
While studying, I got involved with the racing team of the "Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden", Technical University of Applied Sciences as the head of the non-technical area. I also worked at Octobo GmbH (Otto Group) working off SEO tool development.
I’ve been working at F&P GmbH as a Senior Software Engineer since February 2018. Since January 2022, I’ve been supporting the team as a Senior Cloud Engineer.
I've also done freelance work in web development, software development, and IT infrastructure in my spare time 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 into the cloud. I'm passionate about designing highly available and secure infrastructure systems that are cost-effective and efficient. 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

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 the DevOps philosophy.

Agile Mindset

As a software developer with an agile mindset, I'm well-versed in working in both SCRUM and Kanban methods. I pride myself in keeping the customer value in focus, and am always open for changes and continuous improvement.

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:

  • Developed Terraform modules (e.g. AWS EKS, AWS VPC, monitoring and logging)
  • Migrating on-prem hosted services to the AWS cloud and Kubernetes
  • Operated dozens of services in AWS/GCP, for millions of users
  • Connected AWS infrastructure with on-prem locations via an AWS Transit Gateway
  • Built and operated a scalable Gitlab CI/CD infrastructure in the AWS Cloud for the parallel processing of >200 CI/CD jobs
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines with unit and integration tests, static code analysis, build processes, security scans and deployments for over 20 repositories
  • Built and operated an application staging environment in Kubernetes on bare metal using Rancher for evaluation and later migrated to EKS to reduce costs and complexity
  • Built a highly available and hardened HashiCorp Vault infrastructure, including auditable logs. Integrated Vault with GitLab CI/CD, RabbitMQ, SaltStack and other services for comprehensive secret management.
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
F&P GmbH

Senior Software Engineer

  • Architected and developed software modules for internationalization (multilingual, translation workflow, technical SEO)
  • Migrated on-premise hosted services to Kubernetes (AWS EKS) using Terraform and Helm
  • Developed and operated a tracking solution based on Matomo, Kubernetes (GKE) and BigQuery for up to 600 req/s
  • Improved the Docker development environment for company developers, allowing a seamless WFH experience during the Covid-19 crisis.
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
F&P GmbH

Software Developer

  • Refactored and modernized the community profile feature set
  • Optimizing the development workflow by migrating the shared remote development environment to locally running Docker containers
  • Technical SEO analysis and monitoring to measure success using web crawlers, BigQuery and Google DataStudio
  • Developed features to improve SEO visibility such as a new URL routing architecture
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):

  • Designed and developed a web crawler with approx. 2000 nodes
  • Worked with a team to provide a service for SEO text optimization
  • Analyzed and measured performance 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

Feb 2021
Udemy

Python for Financial Analysis and Algorithmic Trading

Jan 2019
Udemy

Data Science: Deep Learning in Python

March 2018
Udemy
Jan 2018
Udemy
Oct 2017
Udemy

Python for Data Science and Machine Learning

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

60%

Elasticstack (Elasticsearch, Kibana)

65%

Google Cloud - GCP

65%

Azure

33%

Bash

90%

Coding skills

python

85%

Pearl

75%

PHP

95%

TypeScript/JavaScript

80%

Java

50%

C/C++

50%

Database skills

SQL

90%

NoSQL

90%

MySQL/MariaDB

90%

MongoDB

80%

Redis

90%

Memcached

75%

Contact

Get in touch

+49 151 651 78 990

Thurnau

mail(at)c-sautter.de

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