Gerd Aschemann is always working at the verge of development and operations. As a freelance software architect he extends the technology stack of his customers introducing a well-suited architecture with appropriate tools and components. During the last years he has accompanied some Cloud-Native software projects taking care of the transition from developing the software artifacts to running them in production. Gerd is a well known speaker at conferences like Javaland, Continuous Lifecycle, Container Days, gr8conf and others.