About the author
Michael Seifert
Cloud and DevOps Consultant
- m.seifert@digitalernachschub.de
- +49 8254 4869987
- Altomünster, Germany
I am a freelancing IT consultant and I help my clients minimize the maintenance cost of their software. I focus on distributed systems in private Clouds that are based on Java or Python.
Do you have a development team spending most of their time fixing unexpected issues and keeping the application alive? They don't have time for new features. And if they manage to start a feature, it's expensive and takes a long time.
Does your software system fail to meet the existing availability or perfomance requirements? Web pages take ages to load, the application is getting slower by the day, and the IT support is flooded with tickets.
Do you want to develop a new, low-maintenance solution to ensure none of the above will happen?
If you answered “yes” at least once while reading the above, chances are high that I can support you. Please see the following overview and find out how I helped my clients in previous projects:
Software service for processing media files
Key contributions:
- Architectural concept
- Automated provisioning and configuration of infrastructure for tests in the CI/CD pipeline
- Automated software releases based on version control tags
Automated identity verification based on passports and ID cards
Key contributions:
- CloudFoundry Buildpack to reuse existing company IP for optical character recognition
- Web page visualizing intermediate results of the business processes for sales demos and stakeholder management
- Reduction of technical project risks through prototypes and feasibility studies
Enabling TV broadcast operation
Key contributions:
- Improved reliability of operational alerts
- Incident response
- Command-line tool for operations, and disaster recovery
- Simplified system design
- Improved reliability of event processing and transactions
Modernization of a legacy software system
Key contributions:
- Simplification of the project setup for developers
- Updating the Vaadin-based frontend to a new major Version of Vaadin
Delivery of debit card PINs via SMS
Key contributions:
- Introduction of a testing strategy
- Database migration from MySQL to Oracle
- Automation of system tests
- Extension of the Continuous Integration pipelines
Highly available serial number generation for integrated circuits manufacturing
Key contributions:
- Database performance analysis and improvement
- Automation of system tests
Unified communication channels to the customer for use in CRM
Key contributions:
- Architectural concept