Paul Lichtenberger
DevOps & Platform Engineer
Austria · remote for the DACH region · German (native) · English (professional) · Spanish (A2–B1)
paul.lichtenberger.rgbg@gmail.com ·
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Summary
I build and run production infrastructure end-to-end — from CI/CD and containers to identity, observability and LLM operations. Industrial-grade
software background across automotive and home-appliance contexts, now building and running
self-hosted platforms end-to-end with a focus on EU data sovereignty.
Experience
DevOps Engineer · talsen team GmbH
Feb 2025 – Present Remote · Salzburg / Germany
- Design and operate multi-service Docker/Compose platforms (Traefik, Keycloak, SearxNG, Firecrawl, Jitsi, vector databases) with a focus on reliability, secure routing and observability.
- Automate provisioning, backup, restore and health checks in Python/Bash, improving resilience and cutting manual effort.
- Build RAG ingestion pipelines and chatbots with LlamaIndex, Qdrant/Milvus and Chainlit, plus distributed scraping via Playwright.
- Integrate Grafana, Prometheus and logging pipelines across self-hosted stacks for alerting, uptime tracking and fast troubleshooting.
- Develop internal developer tooling: VS Code extension logic, Git author automation and CI testing frameworks (Jest + Cucumber).
Senior DevOps Engineer · KIEFEL GmbH
Jan 2023 – Feb 2025 Freilassing, Bavaria, DE
- Built CI/CD pipelines and shaped the architectural design of the digital infrastructure.
- Handled cloud configuration and deployment on Azure.
- Installed and provisioned industrial PCs with Puppet.
- Developed administration tools for the digital infrastructure.
Continuous Integration Engineer · BSH Home Appliances Group
Jan 2021 – Dec 2022 Traunreut, Bavaria, DE
- Developed CI/CD pipelines and rolled out DevOps tools and processes.
- Created container images for CI/CD and as a standardized developer environment.
- Configured and maintained Jenkins masters and developed shared Jenkins libraries.
Software Developer — Tools (Embedded) · EDAG Group
Apr 2017 – Dec 2020 Regensburg, DE
- Developed the Python/MATLAB toolchain for engineers working on series development of automotive ECUs.
- Configured and maintained build and license servers; created and supplied Docker images.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins / GitLab CI.
- Developed PREEvision metrics in Java and supported developers and testers.
Working Student — Backend Development · Continental
Jul 2014 – Apr 2017 Regensburg, DE
- Developed a Django backend and data model for a vehicle remote-diagnosis service.
- Configured and maintained a Couchbase database.
Skills
- Platform & Infrastructure
- Ansible (end-to-end provisioning) · Docker & Docker Compose · Terraform · Harbor · Kubernetes · Puppet (industrial PC provisioning) · Azure (cloud config & deployment) · SemaphoreUI · Traefik (routing & middleware) · Tailscale (incl. Funnel)
- Identity, Security & Registry
- Keycloak (OIDC / SSO) · Authentik (OIDC / SSO) · Azure AD / Entra ID · oauth2-proxy · traefik-oidc
- CI/CD & Quality Engineering
- GitLab CI/CD (templates, runners, self-hosted) · Jenkins (masters, shared libraries) · BDD (behave, Cucumber) · TDD (Jest, pytest) · Mutation testing (Stryker, pymute) · Static analysis & complexity tooling · Internal CLI & VS Code tooling
- AI / LLM Operations
- Langfuse observability · RAG Systems · Vector databases (Qdrant / Milvus) · Chainlit chat UIs · Playwright distributed scraping · Agent deployment & MCP tool servers · Agent safety hooks · Self-hosted OCR / model serving
- Observability & Ops
- Grafana · Prometheus (metrics & alerting) · InfluxDB · Promtail / log pipelines · Nextcloud · Matrix/Synapse · Jitsi · SearxNG · Firecrawl · Production service operations
Education
M.Sc. Medieninformatik (Media Informatics) · Universität Regensburg
2015 – 2017