Michael Friedrich is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitLab, focussing on DevSecOps efficiency with AI. His desire to learn how a computer works brought him from Hardware/Software Systems Engineering to DNS to open-source monitoring development to authoring Git/GitLab training and DevOps workflows. Michael loves to educate everyone and regularly speaks at industry events and meetups. He enjoys unexpected challenges and creates best-practice tutorials and live-programming sessions. When not traveling the world and working remotely, he enjoys building LEGO models and dives into embedded hardware adventures.