Wladi Mitzel

Wladi Mitzel is a Solutions Architect at Pulumi, where he works with engineering organizations to adopt infrastructure as code, build internal developer platforms, and structure their teams around cloud-native practices. He spent over a decade as a Java developer, building enterprise systems in Java EE and Spring Boot before taking on DevOps and platform engineering responsibilities during a large-scale cloud migration. That experience, seeing firsthand how infrastructure decisions affect developer velocity, led him into cloud architecture. He went on to spend four years at AWS as a Solutions Architect, specializing in containers and Kubernetes and guiding large enterprises through cloud transformations. He later joined Alibaba Cloud, advising on cloud architecture, AI workloads, and compliance in regulated environments. Across these roles, a recurring theme has been helping organizations close the gap between application development and infrastructure operations. He is based in Germany.