Hi there 👋🏼

I'm Thorsten, a tech enthusiast and software engineer residing in Saarland, Germany's smallest yet most beautiful state. My passion lies in server-side WebAssembly, Containers, Kubernetes, and cloud computing, with a strong focus on Azure.

I work as a Sr. Developer Advocate at Akamai Technologies, empowering developers to build the next wave of cloud computing using 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.

Some Facts

• 🇩🇪 Team Germany
• 🔷 I was recognized as a Microsoft MVP (Azure) from 2011 till I pro-actively stepped down by the end of 2025
• 🔷 I am a Docker Captain since 2022
• 💜 I am all in on server-side WebAssembly
• 🐳 I do a bunch stuff of Containers and Kubernetes
• I love 💞 my girls
• I play ⚽️, 🏃🏻‍♂️, and 🚴🏼‍♂️ in my spare time

Recent posts I published on my blog

• Azure DevOps Extensions for Spin, Fermyon Wasm Functions and Fermyon Cloud (3 months ago)
• What I’ve Been Up To (3 months ago)
• Uses (5 months ago)
• Archive (13 months ago)
• WebAssembly and Containers with Docker Desktop - Hello World & Beyond (23 months ago)
• Wasm ahead - Joining Fermyon (25 months ago)
• A Farewell to Thinktecture (26 months ago)
• A comprehensive guide on authoring plugins for Fermyon Spin (30 months ago)
• Weekly Rust Trivia: How to use pattern matching (30 months ago)
• Weekly Rust Trivia: How to share state between threads (30 months ago)

Say Hi!

Reach out on X at @ThorstenHans or find me on LinkedIn.

last update: Wed, 11 Feb 2026