About

The company

EgosTech works with clients across Europe and in the United States, including clients in Germany, Portugal, and the Netherlands. Most engagements are fixed-scope projects or monthly retainers.

EGOSTECH INNOVATIONS S.R.L. is registered in Romania and has its registered office in Bucharest. Full legal details are on the contact page.

The principal

Alex Thomae is the company’s administrator and principal consultant. He has spent more than 25 years in information technology, including over 15 years leading engineering teams, most recently as Head of Cloud and Platform Engineering. He works in Romanian, German, and English at C2 level. Clients work with him directly from the first conversation through delivery.

Track record

At ProfitBricks, the German infrastructure-as-a-service provider now part of IONOS, Alex led the engineering teams behind the compute platform now known as the IONOS Cloud Compute Engine. The teams built and operated the automation for its virtual-machine fleet and were responsible for the platform’s performance and availability.

At Commerz Real, the Commerzbank investment arm, Alex was responsible for the company’s cloud and infrastructure, from the data centre and private cloud to Azure and Kubernetes. The business was audited twice a year by the European Central Bank and BaFin, Germany’s federal financial regulator.

At Deutsche Bank, Alex led the DevOps transformation for its private and commercial banking division, a programme spanning Frankfurt, London, Munich, and Hamburg. The programme covered a target operating model, a maturity assessment, an automation consultancy stream, and an internal DevOps school. Alex reported its progress to a steering committee of senior executives.

Earlier in his career he founded and ran an IT company of his own in Romania, and led teams across Europe and Africa, including a distributed team spread over three cities in Tanzania.

How we work

EgosTech works alongside your team, so the knowledge stays inside your organisation and with the people who keep the systems running. Access stays least-privilege and under your control, and every security trade-off is written down and walked through with you. When the engagement ends, what runs the system stays with you: the credentials, the code, and the runbooks.

Selected work

EgosTech’s open-source infrastructure tooling is public at gitlab.com/egos-tech, including swarm-launcher, csp, and postfix, among others. Alex writes about infrastructure and data sovereignty at alex.thom.ae.