Hannes Hofer

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Engineering Manager at Booking.com · Prometheus, incident response

Booking.com
Zurich, Switzerland · CET (UTC+1)
11+ years experience
École Polytechnique
English, German, French, Hindi
Open to work
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Overview

11 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Booking.com, where I lead the infrastructure team. Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion. Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 26 engineers.

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Skills
AWSincident responsePrometheusLinuxKubernetes
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Site Reliability Engineer in HR tech, Zurich or hybrid

Target roles
Site Reliability Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Climate tech, Healthtech
Work mode
Remote
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Switzerland
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where cloud infrastructure is core to the product.
Not interested in
Night shifts

11 years in cloud infrastructure. Strongest at Prometheus and Linux. Serving notice now.

Zurich, Switzerlandlinuxprometheusincident response
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Booking.com · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 727ms to 96ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 35% in two quarters.
    • Grew the infrastructure team from 5 to 35 engineers.
  2. Site Reliability Engineer
    Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
    Feedzai · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 35 a week to 3.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 6.
  3. Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    Dec 2020 - Jun 2023
    BNP Paribas · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 760ms to 98ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 37% in two quarters.
  4. Site Reliability Engineer
    Feb 2017 - Dec 2020
    Booking.com · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Moved 61% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Site Reliability Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
    Allianz · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 395ms to 144ms.
    • Wrote the AWS service that now handles 17 million requests a day.

Projects

Open-source incident response toolkit
2022

A small library for cloud infrastructure that 872 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Electrical Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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