Stefan Richter

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://www.chkk.io/ | https://docs.chkk.io/

Partnered with Fleet Management and Security teams to architect a reliable and secure foundation for a new cloud platform. Designed and built systems for provisioning, patch management, and lifecycle tracking to maximize capital efficiency and maintain operational excellence. Established paved paths for critical security pillars, including machine identity, service authorization and change tracking, to enforce secure-by-default infrastructure practices.

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://www.chkk.io/ | https://docs.chkk.io/

Principal Engineer responsible for designing and delivering the software strategy to migrate AWS’ Backbone network from commercial routers to commodity ones with a centralized control place. Supported engineering teams spread across US, AU, IE. Drove design and delivery of critical pieces of the controller software. AWS’ backbone footprint spans across 30+ Regions, 400+ PoPs, across 200+ countries with 10K+ BGP sessions.

Working to make the AWS Networking better, faster, & smarter for customers around the world

Led software team responsible for video delivery worldwide for Prime Video. At that time, Prime Video was the 3rd largest video streaming platform in the US and 2nd largest in Europe. Worked with Content Delivery Networks on improvements and rolled out machine learning systems to pick the best network for each customer session.

Plan, design, implement and operate the backend architecture and the web application. Lead the development team of other backend and frontend developers.

Presenting, Planning and Implementing monitoring solutions for NGN carriers of all sizes. Supporting the customer, product management and internal sales force.

Working in Linux on System/z group on the reliability in the event of seldom platform failures, e.g. processor, memory or storage errors. Developing models and prototypical implementations for reliability improving algorithms in the Linux kernel.