Paul Lichtenberger

DevOps Engineer

Remote · Salzburg / Germany

Agile software consultancy blending BDD/TDD, DevOps and generative AI in industrial software development. I own the self-hosted platform end-to-end — containerized services, automation, AI systems and observability.

• 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).

• Docker / Compose
• Traefik
• Keycloak
• RAG · LlamaIndex
• Grafana / Prometheus

Senior DevOps Engineer

Freilassing, Bavaria, DE

Thermoforming and industrial-machinery manufacturer. Senior DevOps role spanning CI/CD, cloud and the digital infrastructure behind industrial systems.

• 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.

• CI/CD
• Azure
• Puppet
• Infrastructure

Continuous Integration Engineer

Traunreut, Bavaria, DE

One of the largest home-appliance manufacturers in Europe. Built the CI/CD backbone and standardized, containerized developer environments.

• 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.

• Jenkins
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Shared libraries

Software Developer — Tools (Embedded)

Regensburg, DE

Engineering services provider for the automotive industry. Built developer toolchains and CI/CD for automotive ECU series development.

• 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.

• Python / MATLAB
• Jenkins · GitLab CI
• Docker
• Java

Working Student — Backend Development

Regensburg, DE

Global automotive technology company. Backend development for a vehicle remote-diagnosis service, alongside studies.

• Developed a Django backend and data model for a vehicle remote-diagnosis service.
• Configured and maintained a Couchbase database.

• Python
• Django
• Couchbase