Oliver Thylmann

Oliver is an Account Engineer in Team Teddyfriends as well as the CCO and Co-Founder of Giant Swarm. A self-described geek and serial first adopter, when he's not driving customers to success or hanging out with his family, he can be found hosting our Giant Swarm & Friends evenings or co-hosting the Crypto Nerd Show.

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Let Me Introduce the Five Ts

There are changes about at Giant Swarm and one of these is the fact that we are moving offices again. Interestingly the reason is not that we are adding three people, but that we are moving to a smaller office....

Jan 31, 2018 |

2 min read

Product

A Trip From the Past to the Future of Kubernetes

Boy what a ride this past year has been. In the beginning of 2016, after having been working in the container space for 2 years already (Docker was 0.7 when we started building our own orchestration platform), we moved all...

Dec 21, 2017 |

3 min read

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The Best of Rhineland Finals

Henning, Timo, and me have never been ones for startup competitions, especially those you need to pay for, and we still think a lot about the effort involved versus the potential benefit of such events. After the Cologne Future Award,...

Jun 22, 2015 |

2 min read

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Swarm Stories: Enterprise Architecture Management with leanIX

Today we are talking with one of our users, that we got introduced to by their investor Capnamic. We like introductions by VCs that are not invested in Giant Swarm (yet), so we were happy to have a deeper discussion...

Jun 2, 2015 |

5 min read

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Cologne Future Award for Digital Transformation

Last Tuesday we won the Cologne Future Award, which was given out the first time as part of a yearly meeting called “Kölner Impulse” held at the Rotonda Business Club, which since years discusses future trends in urbanism, „future work”...

May 26, 2015 |

2 min read

Scaling for more users by allowing less

Yes, we are creative thinkers, startup people to the core, always agile and flexible but … we have mental models too and they make you get stuck. We were in our tiny little box.

Mar 27, 2015 |

3 min read