I'm André Sterba, a software engineer based in Germany. I work as a Senior Platform Engineer at Kaufland e-commerce, where I focus on developer experience — automating infrastructure interactions and building self-service capabilities for product teams.

I recently co-founded qonduit.eu, a company working on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Key Management Systems (KMS).

Outside of work, I'm interested in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, and cloud-native software engineering. I self-host most of the services I use — either on rented virtual machines or on hardware at home — because I prefer to keep control over my own data.

I also teach on the side. More information is available here.

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