About me

I'm a fullstack engineer and DevOps enthusiast based in Berlin. Right now I'm finishing my M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering & IT at TU Berlin. I just wrapped up six months as a DevOps Engineer at Capgemini, where I built the observability stack for a sovereign AI platform. Most of what I do sits between software and infrastructure: AWS EKS migrations with Terraform, Python automation, full-stack tooling. Before any of that I spent six months on a sailing ship, mentoring students and helping with microplastic research. That trip is still why I prefer working on whole systems instead of single features.

Marcel Heidebrecht
Berlin, 52°31'N 013°24'E

experience

Feb 2026 to Jul 2026, Berlin

DevOps Engineer (Werkstudent)

Capgemini Deutschland GmbH

  • Central observability stack for a sovereign AI platform: OpenTelemetry pipelines into Grafana LGTM, across ~40 tenants and 70+ services
  • Every component deployed and configured through Ansible; Docker Swarm rollout and operations
  • Instrumented the platform end to end, from Traefik and Authentik to LiteLLM and OpenWebUI

Apr 2025 to Jan 2026, Berlin

Cloud, Data & AI Consultant (Werkstudent)

Campana & Schott GmbH

  • AI-powered lead generation agent in Python with browser automation
  • Migration concept consolidating Azure Data Factory and Databricks into Microsoft Fabric

Nov 2021 to Apr 2025, Berlin

Software Engineer (Werkstudent)

Sourcepark GmbH

  • Migrated a microservice system to AWS EKS: Terraform provisioning, Ansible configuration
  • Java OCR app on Tesseract, a Playwright test suite, a full-stack security scanner

education

Oct 2023 to present

M.Sc. Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (IT)

Technische Universitat Berlin

GPA 1.3. Focus on DevOps, cloud platforms and distributed systems

Oct 2019 to Sep 2023

B.Sc. Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (IT)

Technische Universitat Berlin

GPA 1.3, top 3%. Focus on software engineering, web technologies and project management

extracurricular

Jun 2024 to present, Berlin

Student Consultant

Company Consulting Team e.V.

  • Led the database redesign: 10x faster
  • Internal LLM infrastructure, a Slack app in Python, GitLab CI/CD pipelines

skills

full-stack
JVM ecosystem, TypeScript, Python, Vue, Astro, Spring, FastAPI, Rust, Solana
devops
CI/CD systems, Terraform, Ansible, OpenTelemetry, Grafana LGTM, Git
cloud
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Fabric, Databricks
certs
ITILv4 Foundation, Azure Fundamentals AZ-900, Fabric Data Engineer DP-700

beyond code

Oct 2018 to Apr 2019, both sides of the Atlantic

Atlantic circuit under sail

Ocean College

Six months aboard a tall ship, Ireland to France the long way round: England, Spain and Morocco, out to Tenerife and Cape Verde, across the trades to the Caribbean, on to Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba and the Bahamas, and home by the Azores. I mentored 26 students on board and helped run the microplastics research that was later published in the FAZ.