Jan joined the database engineering team at Zalando more than 6 years ago and learned first hand what it means to operate PostgreSQL in a data center at larger scale in an highly available environment. Turning his back on databases he worked in various software projects including Zalando’s ZMON and migrations to AWS for the last 2.5 years before joining the database engineering team in January of 2017 again. This time to work with the team to build the future Databases as a Service infrastructure on Kubernetes.