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Hi, I’m Pascal.
Solutions Architect at Solace, based in Karlsruhe, Germany. I help engineering teams design event-driven systems that hold up in production, and I teach them how to run those systems themselves.
Away from the keyboard
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Based in Karlsruhe
Working remote-first from Karlsruhe, Germany, with customers all over the world.
Currently learning
- French
- Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
- Event-driven API governance at scale
Things I build and maintain
vscode-yaml-sort
A VS Code extension that sorts, formats and validates YAML files, including custom key orders for Kubernetes and Helm.
solace-prometheus-exporter
Exposes metrics from Solace event brokers to Prometheus, so you can watch queues, clients and message rates in Grafana.
Orbital Mesh
A live demo that tracks satellites and streams their positions as events over WebSockets into a 3D globe.
Webshop Event Feed
A sample event feed covering the whole purchase lifecycle, from abandoned carts to orders, cancellations and returns.
Where I’ve worked
2026 – today
Senior Solutions Architect
Solace
- Deliver the Solace Workshop Series to customers around the world.
- Write architecture guidance, such as the guide to migrating from TIBCO EMS to Solace.
- Build demos and event feeds that show event-driven architecture working end to end.
2026 – 2026
Customer Technical Trainer
Solace
- Trained customer engineering teams on Solace event brokers and event-driven design.
- Built training content and hands-on labs.
2016 – 2026
DevOps and Integration Engineer
dmTECH
- Worked in the integration team on platform and integration engineering.
2013 – 2016
Co-op working Student
dmTECH
- Worked in the integration team on platform and integration engineering.
2013 – 2016
B.Sc. Applied Computer Science
DHBW Karlsruhe
What I work with
Certifications
- Solace certificationsSolace, refreshing in 2026
- Associate Cloud EngineerGoogle Cloud, in progress
- Languages
- Go
- TypeScript
- Java
- Messaging and streaming
- Solace
- Kafka
- TIBCO
- Observability
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Elastic
- Cloud and platform
- Google Cloud
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Everyday tools
- VS Code
- Git
- Jira
Articles
- The Architect's Guide to Migrating from TIBCO EMS to Solace
- Your Solace Prometheus Exporter Deserves a Better Pipeline
- Design-First or Infrastructure-as-Code? Choosing the Source of Truth for your Solace Broker
- 🚀 Unlocking the Future: My AI Agent Mesh Portfolio Backend for the New Year, New You Challenge
- PEM vs. PKCS#12 (P12/PFX): Understanding the Difference Between Certificate Formats