Steffen is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM Research and Development near Stuttgart, Germany. Besides working on Eirini, he is also a member of the postgres-release team. Steffen also served as the first anchor of the bits-service, where a large set of operations was extracted from the Cloud Controller. While he is still a Ruby enthusiast, Steffen also enjoyed spending some time in the Garden team. His spare time is reserved for his wife, two kids, and a cat.