Bernd Kuhlen · Cloud Engineer Bonn area · Germany

I build resilient
cloud systems.

Cloud engineer and systems administrator with more than 25 years of experience turning complex infrastructure into reliable, automated platforms.

AWS architectureAutomationObservabilityAI engineering
25+years in IT
22years on-call
200+domains managed

AWS ARCHITECTURE◆LINUX◆TERRAFORM

CONTAINERS◆OBSERVABILITY◆AUTOMATION

GITHUB & CI/CD◆DNS◆INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

SCRUM MASTER◆IT ESCALATION MANAGEMENT

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS◆CERTIFICATION

AI ACADEMY◆AI-ASSISTED AUTOMATION

Bernd Kuhlen with his dog
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NOW / OCTOBER 2026

What I’m exploring
right now.

A small, current snapshot of what I am learning, building, and measuring—without turning the portfolio into a social feed.

01 / CURRENT FOCUS

Shifting security checks left.

My current focus is secure development with security linting and GitHub Dependabot alerts: catching risky patterns and vulnerable dependencies early, keeping findings actionable, and treating remediation as part of the normal engineering workflow.

Security lintingDependabotSecure development
02 / INTERACTIVE LAB

See the EFS time bomb before it explodes.

Adjust storage, throughput, busy hours, and the starting balance to see whether burst credits recover—or quietly count down to a bottleneck.

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03 / LATEST FIELD NOTE

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The newest production story from the knowledge archive.

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04 / MEASURED PROGRESS

63 Kraftwerk sessions logged.

Strength training gets the same feedback loop as infrastructure: record the work, inspect the trend, and improve the next iteration.

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