About

I’m Mads Hartmann, an experienced software engineer and tech lead with a focus on reliability. I love diving head first into production issues, especially the weird ones. When I’m not rummaging around in production I spend my energy making it easier to understand, and eventually more reliable.

Experience

• Gitpod

  Current
  • Site Reliability Engineer April 2021 – Present Remote

• Glitch

  2 years 5 months

  As a Site Reliability Engineer I worked across the company to improve the reliability of the platform. I led projects to improve our observability, reduce the blast radius of code and configuration changes, improve our alerting through SLO-based alerts, and helped improve our incident response process. Our services were written in Node.js, hosted on AWS, and provisioned using Terraform.

  • Engineering Manager Nov 2020 – April 2021 (6 months) Remote
  • Staff Site Reliability Engineer Aug 2020 – Nov 2020 (4 months) Remote
  • Site Reliability Engineer Dec 2018 – Aug 2020 (1 yr 9 months) Remote

• Famly

  2 years 3 months

  I spearheaded our efforts to automate and streamline our infrastructure. Specifically dockerizing our applications, setting up a proper CI pipeline, as well as setting up our Kubernetes cluster. I worked mostly in Scala with a focus on utilizing functional programming techniques.

  • Fullstack Engineer Sep 2016 - Nov 2018 (2 years 3 months) Copenhagen

• Issuu

  2 years 11 months

  I worked as a fullstack engineer developing features end-to-end, which included making sure everything was performing well and ran reliably in production. I worked in OCaml, Erlang, Python, and Javascript.

  • Fullstack Engineer Oct 2013 - Aug 2016 (2 years 11 months) Copenhagen

Education

• 2013: Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Copenhagen
  Specialised in programming languages and type systems.

• 2011: Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the IT University of Copenhagen