Hi, I'm Max Bickel,

About Me

Hi i'm Max, passionate about everything with Computers, programming and building Applications. I once was an Engineer in the automotive sector and transitioned into software engineering ;) I'm especially focused on the AWS cloud, where I hold several certifications as Solutions Architect, Developer and DevOps Engineer Professional.

Skills

C#
JavaScript
Python
HTML;)
Java
Ruby
Go
Kotlin
C++
HCL
YAML
Flask
FastAPI
React
ASP.NET
Express
Chalice
Spring
Qt
Vue.js
ITIL4
Git
CI/CD
Terraform
Ansible
Kubernetes
Docker
Postman
Jenkins
CloudFormation
Flux/ArgoCD/GH Actions
Pandas
Pulumi
Helm

Education & Experience

For more information, have a look at my curriculum vitae .

  • Bechtle Mar 2022 - Present
    Cloud Solution Architect
    React Javascript Python DevOps Software Architecture
  • alfatraining Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
    C++/Qt-Developer
    Qt C++ Object-Oriented-Programming (OOP)
  • BĂ–LLINGER GROUP Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
    Project engineer
    CodeSys 3D-Printing 3D-Modelling
  • AUDI Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
    Process engineer
    Welding Robotics Production
  • Bachelor of Engineering
  • ILLIG Maschinenbau Sep 2011 - Mar 2015
    electronics engineer for industrial engineering
    Automation SPS PLC

Projects

Automation project for a Cloud Service Provider that gathers contracts and invoices of all customers for automated controlling and billing process. Built in a cloud-native and containerized Microservice Architecture.

Python Kubernetes Microservices Docker Automation DevOps

GUI Application deployed as Executable, that puts together data from multiple excel-files and consolidates them in one customer-friendly file.

Python Qt Microservices Automation DevOps

Fullstack E-Commerce Shop, including User- and Productmanagement on Database, Backend API, Single-Page-Application Frontend. This also includes Containerization, CI/CD and a complete Kubernetes Stack.

Python React Microservices Kubernetes CI/CD Containerization MongoDB

Serverless approach of an Backend for an E-Shop. Uses AWS DynamoDB as serverless Database, AWS Lambda functions for the API-routes and AWS API Gateway as internet facing endpoint. Developed with AWS Chalice, a Python-Framework for serverless API's.

Serverless Python Chalice Microservices AWS Software Architecture

GUI Application for image branding. Made for the official Girl's Day @ Bechtle. It lets the attendees create personalized and customized memories of their day at the company.

CI/CD Python Qt Portable Microservices

A containerized Microservice running on K8s that monitors changes in your Github-Repos and notifies your Discord Channel with detailed information.

Kubernetes Python Microservices CI/CD Monitoring

Developing a service for running Nextcloud with all needed components on Kubernetes. This includes a fully functional app suite, per customer encapsulation, domain and DNS config as well as a CI/CD pipeline.

Kubernetes Nextcloud Virtualization CI/CD DevOps

Open Source Projects

My helm Charts.

Github

Fullstack-App for interacting with data from and to S3 storage via RestAPI and SPA. Written in Microservice-Architecture & running on K8s.

Github

Personal Website

Github

Cloudnative Microservice for K8s.

Github

Example of gRPC with Python.

Github

A CLI tool for creating a bearer token from a gcp serviceaccount json.

Github

Setup an local dev k8s cluster.

Github

Example React SPA deployed with GH Pages.

Demo Github

Setup an multi-node vanilla K8s Cluster.

Github

Sample app for docker + express

Github

Basic infrastructure stack for the AWS cloud.

Github

Workshop: Building cloudnative Applications

Github

Setup & use Jenkins 4 DevOps

Github

Using Kustomize - Demo

Github

CLI tool to create Dockerfiles for Go- and Python-Projects as well as K8s templates.

Github

Sample ELK-Stack setup.

Github

Gokedex - A pokedex written in Go.

Github

Guide for setting up and using HashiCorp Vault (HA) on K8s.

Github

A Discord Bot for monitoring Github-Repos.

Github

IaC example with AWS cloudformation.

Github

Example files for static web-content.

Github

Sample project for an Rest-API to perform CRUD-Operations on a MongoDB.

Github

Contact

Feel free to connect with me. I'm always looking for exciting and interesting exchanges about Tech, Gaming and Food :D