I'm Thorsten, a tech enthusiast and software engineer living in Saarland, Germany's smallest yet most beautiful state. My passion lies in server-side WebAssembly, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native.
I work as a Sr. Developer Advocate at Akamai Technologies, empowering developers to build the next wave of cloud computing using the CNCF project Spin, Kubernetes and GenAI.
With extensive experience in developing cloud-based solutions, I specialize in helping organizations harness the power of WebAssembly to build scalable, resilient, and efficient applications for the future.
I'm self-publishing Building Serverless Applications with WebAssembly & Spin
- 🇩🇪 Team Germany
- 💜 I am all-in on server-side WebAssembly
- 🐳 I do a bunch stuff of containers and Kubernetes
- 🔷 I was recognized as a Microsoft MVP (Azure) from July 2011 - December 2025 (pro-actively stepped down)
- 🔷 I am a Docker Captain since 2022
- I love my girls
- I play ⚽️, 🏃🏻♂️, and 🚴🏼♂️ in my spare time
Recent posts I published on my blog
- Book Progress & Illustrations (2 days ago)
- Book Progress & Thoughts on Inclusive Pricing (10 days ago)
- Now (11 days ago)
- I’m Writing a Book on WebAssembly and Spin (1 month ago)
- Component Composition with Spin 4.0 (1 month ago)
- Azure DevOps Extensions for Spin, Fermyon Wasm Functions and Fermyon Cloud (11 months ago)
- What I’ve Been Up To (11 months ago)
- Uses (13 months ago)
- Archive (20 months ago)
- WebAssembly and Containers with Docker Desktop - Hello World & Beyond (31 months ago)
Reach out on X at @ThorstenHans or find me on LinkedIn.
last update: Fri, 18 Sep 2026