About me

Hej there! My name is Sebastian 'sebbel' Ball, a software engineer living in Düsseldorf / Germany. When I am not busy being surrounded by goats, I enjoy to talk and learn more about DevOps and AWS topics. It's always great to contribute to a healthy CI/CD process and enable developers to work faster and with higher quality.

Having seven years of experience of AWS has given me profound expert knowledge in the areas of networking, serverless and container loads. Working for startups has also given me the extra focus for cost efficiency. I approach cost optimization like a detective, finding those hidden NAT Gateway that are eating away dollars.

Another big interest of mine is infrastructure as code, where you define your cloud resources in files and deploy them through the same mechanisms you'd deploy your backend code. I've built and deployed plenty of infrastructure-projects using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS-CDK) and Terraform throughout multiple assignments at larger and smaller companies including startups.

For the past years I have been working in the ecommerce industry, including the startup ShopCo as well as the swedish bank and shopping heavyweight Klarna. In those assignments I was primarly tasked with improving the developer experience and taking care of infrastructure, especially on AWS. I have also worked on build pipelines and monitoring, two areas that I enjoy a lot.

Since about four years I've been working as a Consultant in the AWS and DevOps space, helping various startups and middle-sized companies to accomplish their cloud strategy or help with their migration or architect their cloud-native workloads.

It is always a little bit cheesy when talking about goals, or where I want to be in five years. A big focus will be certification and gaining knowledge and experience on AWS projects. There is a golden jacket waiting for the somewhere these coming years.

Currently I am working for a german consulting company called Netlution GmbH where I help customers with their AWS painpoints with both my AWS and DevOps expertise.

I am not looking for a new position right now.