Senior Search, Observability & Operations Engineer

Torsten Bøgh Köster

I have expert level knowledge in constructing, developing and running high traffic web applications. I embrace open source software and am passionate about agile software development, I am metric driven, have a passion for observability and love to talk about my findings at conferences and meetups.

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Skills Overview

I have more than 10 years experience building and operating large scale search applications primary for ecommerce clients. Below is a quick overview of my main technical skill set and tools I use on a regular basis. Want to find out more about my experience? Check out my full resume

Search

  • Solr & Lucene
  • Java / Spring Boot
  • PostgreSQL
  • GenAI / LLM / NLP / NER
  • Elasticsearch / OpenSearch

Observability

  • Prometheus, Grafana
  • FluentBit & Loki
  • Langfuse & Elastic APM
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions
  • Alertmanager & PagerDuty

Operations

  • Terraform, Ansible
  • Digital Ocean & Hetzner Cloud
  • Hyperscaler Clouds (AWS, GCP)
  • Kubernetes & Docker
  • HAProxy, Nginx, Traefik & TLS

Interested in hiring me for your project?

Looking for an experienced search & operations engineer to build, tune and ship your search engine?
Need a hand running large scale distributed systems or containers in Kubernetes?
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