Dominik Borghorst
Senior Cloud & DevOps Specialist
Hello
My name is Dominik and I am a highly skilled specialist with nearly 15 years of experience designing, building, operating and maintaining reliable, secure and cost-efficient IT infrastructures, in the cloud and on-premises.
Through my recent work I consider myself to be an expert in cloud and DevOps topics with a broad knowledge of all relevant technologies. Having worked with leading German media companies for many years, I was not only able to gather significant experience with large-scale systems serving millions of concurrent users, but also with online video and content delivery solutions.
Since 2023 I am offering my services as a freelance IT consultant.
Whether you want to work with one of the big or small cloud providers or choosing a more classical on-premise approach, I am happy to find the right solution for you, always using the latest set of tools and services available.
Let's get in touch
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- Cloud Architecture (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)
- State of the art, reliable, secure and cost-efficient IT Infrastructure (Infrastructure as code, Containers, Virtualization, DevOps)
- Streaming Media (VOD, Live, DRM, Transcoding)
- High-Traffic Applications and Content Delivery
- All major Linux distributions including the typical services and applications
- Microsoft Windows Server and Client, Active Directory, Exchange Server, Microsoft 365
workProfessional Experience
IT Consultant & Architect
Freelance
place Mülheim an der Ruhr date_range 11/2023 - present
Cloud | Infrastructure | DevOps | Streaming Media
Senior Cloud Engineer Streaming Technology
RTL Deutschland
place Cologne date_range 12/2019 - 10/2023
In this position I was responsible for designing, building, operating and optimizing the mostly cloud based video streaming infrastructure for the largest German video streaming service RTL+, while always keeping a focus on reliability, security and cost-efficiency.
This included live streaming of major sports events to a high six-digit number of concurrent users on a vast selection of different devices.
Tech Stack: AWS, GCP, Ubuntu, Unified Streaming Server, Apache httpd, Apache Traffic Server, Nginx, Docker, GitLab CI, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, ffmpeg, Golang, JavaScript, Bash, Akamai
Senior Infrastructure Engineer HPC
Covestro Deutschland AG
place Leverkusen date_range 07/2019 - 11/2019
Operation and management of a CPU and GPU powered high-performance computing cluster for chemical research in an interim capacity
Tech Stack: CentOS, OpenHPC, Slurm, Warewulf, BeeGFS, Docker, KVM, git, NVIDIA DGX
Senior Devops Engineer
jambit GmbH
place Munich date_range 09/2017 - 06/2019
Management and optimization of the company-wide IT infrastructure at several physical locations and in the cloud.
Project lead for the company-wide introduction of Microsoft 365, involving planning and delivering the migration of more than 400 user accounts from on-premise systems to a hybrid setup.
Software development and project management in internal software development projects
Consulting customers in DevOps and cloud transformation projects
Tech Stack: CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Server & Client, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365, VMware, AWS, Azure, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Jenkins, Java, PHP, Bash
Video Systems Engineer
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
place Munich date_range 03/2015 - 08/2017
Management of the shared video streaming infrastructure for all companies within the ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE group and external customers.
My responsibilities included operating, extending and restructuring a highly complex IT infrastructure, on-premise and in the cloud, as well as the development of backend applications for the entire video workflow from ingest to end-user delivery.
Tech Stack: AWS, CentOS, Puppet, Unified Streaming Server, Apache httpd, Apache Traffic Server, PHP, Perl, Bash, GitHub, ffmpeg, Google Widevine DRM, Microsoft PlayReady, Apple Fairplay, EMC Isilon, Akamai
Infrastructure Engineer
RTL interactive GmbH
place Cologne date_range 08/2011 - 02/2015
Infrastructure engineering with a focus on high-traffic web hosting on Linux systems and content delivery, involving on premise systems and cloud solutions
Tech Stack: Debian, Windows Server, VMWare, Adobe Media Server, Adobe Primetime, Apache Traffic Server, AWS, PHP, MySQL, MS SQL, Puppet, F5, Scality RING, Akamai
Network and Infrastructure Engineer
ZENIT GmbH
place Mülheim an der Ruhr date_range 03/2011 - 07/2011
Management and optimization of the IT environment in a medium-sized consulting company, including server and client administration
Tech Stack: Windows Server & Client, Debian, SLES, VMware, Samba, Bind, Postfix, Citrix, PHP, MySQL, MS SQL, Bash