Stefan Richter

About Stefan Richter

Engineer and operator with a passion for infrastructure software technologies. Built…

Experience

1. Chief Architect

   Chkk

   May 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Chkk is an agentic lifecycle management platform for Cloud Native software. We automate lifecycle management—including patching, updating, and upgrading—across 100s of Cloud Native projects such as Istio, Kafka, Consul, Keycloak, and more. The platform spans research, analysis, planning, execution, continuous verification, and the generation of IaC pull requests. It is powered by durable workflows that humans and AI agents co-execute safely.Enterprises rely on Chkk to cut weeks of effort down to days, simplify lifecycle management, and ensure safe co-execution between AI agents and humans—keeping them compliant and up to date.Chkk is backed by Sequoia Capital and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. Learn more at https://docs.chkk.io/

Education

• Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

  2006 — 2009

• Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany

  Master of Science (M.Sc.)

  2010 — 2012

Skills

• Java
• Session Border Controller
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Software Development
• Python
• Virtualization
• Computer Science
• Operating Systems
• Sip
• System Administration
• Django
• Sql
• Linux
• Architectures
• Algorithms
• Windows
• Bash
• Architecture
• Linux System Administration
• C++
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Software Engineering
• Ngn
• Cloud Computing
• Windows Azure
• Hbci
• Programming