Patrick Banholzer

Date/Time Job description
11/2024 - today Bring-Up Manager & Software Integrator ADAS - Mercedes-Benz AG
  - Task force lead for various software integrations
- Building and leading cross-functional teams for complex problems and development efforts
- Coordinating module deliveries of the ADAS software stack
- Driving escalations with the development teams
- Defect management for urgent problems (ASPICE SUP.9)
- Coordinating the evolution of continuous testing (CI/CT)
08/2022 - 11/2024 Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer Automated Driving - Mercedes-Benz AG
  - Designed and implemented continuous testing environments, including pre-merge tests on virtual and hardware-based test and simulation platforms
- Planned and executed the migration of the CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitLab CI
- Developed and introduced an LLM-based build log analysis tool to increase software development efficiency

Technologies:
- GitLab CI, Jenkins
- Containers
- Python, Bash
08/2021 - today Consultant for GitOps, DevOps, IT-Infrastructure - Freelancer
  - IT consulting for public sector clients & startups
- Cloud infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, IoT and classic IT infrastructure
04/2019 - 07/2022 DevOps Engineer Ubuntu / Continuous Deployment / IT Automation - Daimler AG / Mercedes-Benz AG
  - Responsible for operations of 2300+ Ubuntu desktop systems
- Architected DevOps config management (Saltstack) with CI/CD for Ubuntu Client Operations
- Architected and built a cloud config management environment (Saltstack) on AWS to operate vehicle development machines worldwide
- IT infrastructure architecture for automated & autonomous driving

Technologies:
- Linux (Ubuntu / Suse)
- Saltstack
- Foreman
- Jenkins
- AWS
- Containers
07/2011 - 03/2019 IT Manager & Systems Engineer - IT-Designers Gruppe / STZ-Softwaretechnik
  - Team Lead, Responsible for inhouse IT aswell as IT \services for customers
- Team of seven people
- KeyAccount Management
- Project Controlling
- Technical Lead

Technologies:
- Linux (Ubuntu / RHEL)
- VMware
- NetApp
- Puppet
- Microsoft Active Directory + Kerberos
- Squid
- Gitlab, Jenkins
- FlexLM
10/2009 - 07/2011 Systems Engineer Networking+Security+VoIP - badenIT GmbH
  - Responsible for Campus LAN (Cisco/Alcatel), Site2Site (MPLS) of badenova AG
- Operations of Firewalls (Checkpoint/Juniper/Cisco) & Proxies (Squid)
- Unified Communications (Cisco/Asterisk)