Member of the Month for March 2025: Employee

[Gosia_Murawska]

Introducing Member of the Month!

Some heroes don’t wear capes. Luckily, we can reward them with a Member of the Month award. Christian’s contributions have significantly improved the lives of many Dynatracers. While everyone in Dynatrace uses Slack and Jira, it’s fascinating to know that Christian @christian_kreuz was instrumental in developing the first connectors! We aren’t the first ones whose lives he’s made easier—his passion for technology and strategy has been evident from a young age. Read the article and discover Christian’s impact!

Hello Christian! Shed some light on your life’s journey.

I have always been very technophile. At the age of 9, my neighbors called me to help them with “programming their TVs” - basically reading the manual and using the remote control to run the channel search/tuning.

At the age of 13, I had already written a ton of PHP, HTML, and JavaScript Code—needless to say, this code would not survive a code review. After finishing my technical education at a college specializing in Software Development and studying Mathematics at university, I went for a job as a Python Software Engineer. I eventually became a Dynatracer and started as a Team Lead in the Open Source project “Keptn”.

Since then, I’ve worked my way through Dynatrace with various roles, and I’ve managed to build up quite some knowledge about the product.

Tell us about your work and what interesting things you’re working on.

The most challenging part for our department is to develop and maintain not one component, but multiple components spread across multiple repositories. While contributing to improvements to individual Connectors, I’m also driving and executing improvements for developer experience, like creating shared packages, as well as automating boring tasks.

In addition, I’m advocating internally for using our own product, specifically Workflows and Connectors, to achieve our goals. As part of this, I’m working together with multiple teams and stakeholders, providing feedback on new features early on, as well as helping customers with Workflows.

What makes you excited about being a part of the Dynatrace?

I really like problem solving—like almost every engineer. What excites me at Dynatrace is the scale. Solving a problem could mean solving it for hundreds, if not thousands, of customers!

What makes Dynatrace Community important to you?

“We can help customers adopt our product, and on top of that, the next customer with the same question might also benefit from it.”

For me, the Dynatrace Community offers an informal way of communicating with customers. It helps us understand the pains that customers run through. Ideally, we can help customers adopt our product, and on top of that, the next customer with the same question might also benefit from it.

Tell us something about you that most people don’t know. What is your biggest joy or passion in life?

I love Formula 1! While the racing aspect has not been the most exciting lately, I’m a big fan of strategy. In addition, I relax by doing some work in my garden.

Besides that, my all-time favorites are the Iron Man and new Spiderman movies, but anything in the MCU would probably work.

List a few facts we likely didn’t know about you! What’s on your bucket list?

If you ask the younger version of me: Sit in an F1 car and compete for the championship

But right now, my goals are focused around my family. I have three kids, and helping them to grow into independent individuals is my main goal.

What achievement are you most proud of? 

In 2022, I led two teams that created the first connectors for Dynatrace: Slack and Jira. We also navigated through the first releases of Dynatrace SDKs and Strato design system components.

We laid the groundwork for other teams to create connectors and Workflow actions.

Since then, I’ve been a part of multiple efforts to extend and improve connectors as well as relevant SDKs and UI components.

Thank you!

Thank you, Christian, for your unwavering dedication to Dynatrace and for being a true advocate for our Community. We appreciate your passion and commitment to making life easier for everyone around you!

Member of the Month articles explained!

Member of the Month is a series of articles posted at the start of every month to honor the most engaged Community Users among our customers, business partners, and employees. We’re patiently observing the contribution in all aspects of the everyday forum run to award those who make the Dynatrace Community a valuable place to be! In the next chapters, you’ll read personal and professional highlights, as we’re all fascinating human beings with a unique story behind us. Who knows, maybe you’ll be here next month?

[AntonioSousa]

Congratulations @christian_kreuz !
This season you’ll probably have some other interest besides strategy

[christian_kreuz]

Thank you for this awesome post :fist_bump:

[gbaudart]

Congrats @christian_kreuz !

[Karolina_Linda]

Congrats, Christian! :clap:

[DanielS]

Congratulations @christian_kreuz ! I love to know from people in the Dynatrace kitchen!!!

[agata.wlodarczyk]

Congratulations, Christian @christian_kreuz!
Leave some space for me in F1 and…
PS: :heart_eyes:

[ChadTurner]

Way to go @christian_kreuz

[Peter_Youssef]

Congratulations @christian_kreuz :clap:

[PedroDeodato]

Sitting in a F1 car is a great dream!
Maybe on the next Perform, you might ask them nicely to sit on the one at the expo?? 😅

Congrats, @christian_kreuz !