Erik Bernoth

As part of a team from diverse Red Hat organisations, SAP and IBM we integrated our Kubernetes Platforms, Gardener and Openshift around the emerging technology of Kubevirt (Kubernetes VM management).

• Understand Design Decisions in SAP’s Gardener to propose meaningful interfaces between both platforms.
• Represent Red Hat’s Walldorf team in the interdisciplinary project team and align plans and resources with other organisations within Red Hat.
• Represent the integration project’s status in global, internal engineering calls.
• Participate in program planning and software architecture discussions with SAP and IBM.
• Establish a Kanban based, agile work mode in cooperation with Program and Product Management teams.
• Side activity: Create and moderate work groups in Red Hat’s Walldorf team to improve the team spirit, get non-urgent-but-important work done with joy, and integrate team members who only joined after work-from-home was established.

Empower Customers to use Red Hat products and processes, with a focus on Openshift on-prem installations.

• Accompany customers on their on-prem Openshift journey.
• Advise on system and solution architecture.
• Advise on project plans, project risks, Red Hat documentation and RH. support processes.
• Travel to customers on-site.

The SAP DataHub team was a global effort at developing the first Kubernetes based software for SAP, building on top of distributed database technology, machine learning and data warehousing systems.

• Lead Integration of SAP DataHub with Red Hat’s Openshift.
• Establish processes for continuous integration.
• Define and hire for technical and organisational roles to execute the integration process.
• Participate in tooling development and integration testing activities around SAP DataHub.
• Participate in Partner Management activities between SAP and Red Hat.