Competition Company GmbH

Competition Company GmbH

Senior Platform Engineer

Feb. 2025 - Dec. 2025

Game platform scaling for Xbox and PlayStation release.

#Kubernetes#ArgoCD#k6#Go#PostgreSQL

Site Reliability and Platform Engineering

  • Scaled infrastructure for the Xbox and PlayStation release of a racing game.
  • Designed and executed load tests with k6 to identify and remove bottlenecks.
  • Improved observability with stronger Grafana and Prometheus dashboards and alerting.
  • Refined Argo CD GitOps delivery workflows for safer rollouts.
  • Improved a Kubernetes operator for better automated game-server scaling.

Backend Engineering

  • Developed and operated Go microservices on GKE and GCore.
  • Integrated services via REST APIs and Kafka event streaming.
  • Implemented in-game metrics collection with Firestore.
  • Performed performance tuning and fixed memory leaks and runtime issues.