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Michael Thamm

Embracing the chaos has led me to complete a Masters of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering, work in different countries, meet Elon Musk, tour SpaceX HQ with classified access, program adaptive welding robots on a telescopic boom lift, configure IIoT asset data collection for a Tier 1 automotive manufacturer, manage DevOps as a global systems admin for an Austrian FinTec, and much more ...

Education

MASc — Electrical Engineering

BEng — Electrical Engineering

AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03)

Countries Worked In

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DevOps & CI/CD

Cloud & Observability

Databases

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Career Companies

For my latest professional experience, see my resume in the navigation bar at the top of the screen

I work for Canonical as a Software Engineer I on the Observability team, building and maintaining open source cloud infrastructure.
My responsibilities and tech stack:

Develop and maintain Juju (a cloud-agnostic orchestrator) charms for Grafana, Opentelemetry-collector, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, etc.
Contribute to open-source charm libraries
Build and test artifacts (rocks, snaps, charms) for observability workloads
Work with Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native observability tooling

I worked for riskine as a DevOps Engineer where I managed GitLab CI/CD pipelines and company infrastructure as a global systems administrator.
My responsibilities and tech stack:

Managed hybrid-cloud Ubuntu Linux servers

Consume AWS APIs for Python application programming
Harden operations and systems for adherence to ISO 27001 cybersecurity standards

Successfully migrated:
- Traefik v1 to v2
- Docker v1 to v2
Piloted the integration of:
- Microsoft InTune MDM/MAM
- Terraform state-managed Azure AD provisioning
Integrated SSO, authentication flows and scalable system architecture

I worked for Kinarm as a Juniour Software Developer where I professionally transitioned careers from Electrical Engineer to Software Engineer.
My responsibilities and tech stack:

Java and Python backend programming

Integration of eye-tracking and haptic feedback for patient trials
UI and hardware-level programming of the application

Operate within the main IT role

Business continuitypProcess improvement
Automate vulnerability detection and remediation

Assembly and integration of Linux Ubuntu host server and Windows Server 2022
On-site installation and collaboration with neuroscience researchers using Kinarms

I worked for Brave Control Solutions as a Controls Specialist where I worked on projects in Canada: British Columbia & Ontario, USA: Michigan, and Mexico: Senora.
My responsibilities and tech stack:

IIoT asset data collection project using MQTT broker and Siemens Simatic IPC
ABB Robotics programming in Rapid to synchronise adaptive welding
Electrical and software integration for custom project scopes