Andrej Friesen is a full-time nerd by passion. Originally studied engineering but switched to his passion: DevOps.

He started his career with hosting in-house applications on VMs, moved those applications to containers, and then AWS with Kubernetes. Designed the infrastructure and ran several Kubernetes clusters for several environments before AWS offered a managed solution (EKS). He also was one of the early beta testers of AWS EKS.

Afterward, he got down the stack, to a German cloud provider. Building the cloud and its products like Kubernetes as a Service, Filesystems as a Service, Databases as a Service, etc.

From using the Cloud to building the Cloud.

He is also writing on his blog about self-hosting, DIY electronics, home lab, home automation, and various other topics at: https://www.ajfriesen.com