TL, DR

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Who are you?

I work on helping people write and operate high-traffic microservice architectures more easily.

I am a professional software person with experience writing and operating eCommerce software systems since ~2014. Most recently, I worked as an engineering manager for Zalando, leading an embedded site reliability engineering team. Historically, I led their CyberWeek operational readiness workstream 2x, worked as an incident commander for 3+ years and worked as a staff and Site Reliability Engineer on all manner of critical projects.

Before that, I maintained Kubernetes clusters with 20,000 services at shared hosting providers, designed bespoke compute infrastructure for SMEs in Germany & Australia and designed observability stacks, CI/CD infrastructure on top of Kubernetes, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform and assorted infrastructure as code tooling.

See LinkedIn for further details.

How do I get in touch?

I absolutely welcome you to reach out. If you want to reach me privately, try the following:

• WhatsApp, Telephone: +49 176 376 58815

• Email: hello[at]andrewhowden.com

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This blog is my humble offering with my thinking about software, and my invitation to you to challenge it. By subscribing, you’ll benefit from the many mistakes I’ve made along the way and provide your perspectives on how this should be solved.

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