Kai HeldSITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
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I build reliable, secure platforms for on-prem and private cloud. Permanent at Helsing; selective part-time and short-term consulting remains part of my work.

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Capabilities

Solving Problems

REL-01

Reliability Engineering

Designing platforms that remain observable, recoverable, and understandable when conditions stop being ideal.

PRV-02

Private Cloud Foundations

Using cloud primitives across on-prem and private environments without importing public-cloud assumptions.

MLO-03

MLOps Infrastructure

Making data and ML platforms deployable, observable, secure, and operable over time.

SEC-04

Security-aligned Delivery

Translating security and assurance constraints into identity, guardrails, evidence, and working systems.

Permanent & independent · 2020—now

Work & engagements

  1. 01FEB 25—NOWHelsingSite Reliability Engineer (Delivery Lead)Permanent
  2. 02APR—DEC 24BMWAWS DevOps EngineerIndependent
  3. 03JAN 23—APR 24BundesdruckereiSite Reliability EngineerIndependent
  4. 04NOV 23—MAR 24Rohde & SchwarzBackend Developer / PythonIndependent
  5. 05NOV 22—JAN 23VolkswagenAWS Security ArchitectIndependent
  6. 06OCT 20—JUN 21SiemensDevOps EngineerIndependent

Zettel

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