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Hi, I’m Katharina, a career changer into Cloud & DevOps with a background in art, music, production and care work.
Over the last years I’ve been:
- learning and working hands-on with AWS, Linux basics, containerized services and CI/CD
- completing a 14-month full-time Cloud Engineering program (Masterschool)
- doing a 320-hours full-time DevOps/Cloud internship (WeBeet) with real-world infrastructure and observability tasks
- bringing in experience from creative projects, organizing work, documentation and support-focused roles
Tech Projects
WeBeet Internship – Observability & Infrastructure
DevOps / Cloud Intern (320 hours, full-time)
- Worked with Docker-based services in a team environment
- Designed and set up an observability stack:
- Metrics with Prometheus
- Dashboards with Grafana
- Logging with Loki
- Troubleshot containerized services and runtime issues
- Collaborated via GitHub:
- GitHub Issues for task tracking
- GitHub Projects (Kanban board)
- Pull Requests with mandatory reviews
- Actively documented decisions, progress and changes directly in Issues and PRs to keep history transparent
- CI/CD exposure via GitHub Actions:
- Read and adjusted existing YAML workflows
- Participated in pipeline discussions and debugging
- Basic Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform concepts, reading and adapting configs)
- Small demo web app deployed on AWS (EC2 + RDS)
- Infrastructure defined with Terraform (based on templates and guidance)
- Containerized using Docker
- Focus on:
- reproducible environments
- basic automation
- clean documentation
- Final project reviewed and approved by a mentor
Learning Labs & Mini Projects
- boot.dev CI/CD course
- pipelines, automation concepts, YAML-based workflows
- AWS networking labs
- VPCs, subnets, routing basics, security groups
- Git & GitHub workflows
- branches, pull requests, reviews, team collaboration
- Cloud Music Diary (WIP)
- personal cloud project combining music & cloud engineering
- GitHub Actions
- documentation-first approach
Skills
Cloud & DevOps (Foundations)
- AWS: EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC, subnets, security groups (hands-on)
- Docker & Docker Compose: service-based setups
- CI/CD fundamentals:
- GitHub Actions (reading, modifying, collaborating on pipelines)
- YAML-based workflows
- Linux fundamentals:
- CLI, SSH, logs, processes, environment variables
- Infrastructure as Code (Basics):
- Terraform concepts
- using and adapting templates
Monitoring & Observability
- Prometheus (metrics scraping & configuration)
- Grafana (dashboard creation)
- Loki / Promtail (log forwarding & log analysis)
- Containerized applications and services
- Kubernetes concepts (learning in progress):
- pods, services, deployments (labs & coursework)
Software & Scripting
- Python basics (scripts, small tools)
- Object-Oriented Programming fundamentals
- Working with APIs & CLI tools
- YAML, JSON, Markdown
Collaboration & Engineering Practices
- Git & GitHub (Issues, Projects, PRs, reviews)
- Documentation-first mindset
- Async & remote collaboration
Previous Experience – Transferable Skills
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Artist & Music Video Director
Planning, organizing and executing shoots, working with equipment, editing in DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere, managing timelines and budgets.
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Musician & Organizer
Organizing events, coordinating people, managing logistics and costs, performing under pressure, production and composition of music, studio setup, collaboration with other artists.
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Personal Assistance & Care Work
High responsibility, clear communication, empathy, reliability, and structured support in stressful environments. 24/7 work-shift experience, first-aid courses. Worked with elderly and handicapped.
These experiences help me stay calm, organized and human-centered in technical work.
Artistic Work
If you’re curious about my artistic work (video, music, performance):
Visit my artist homepage