Experience

  1. Linux Systems Engineer / Network Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer

    snafu Gesellschaft für interaktive Netzwerke mbH

    Responsibilities include:

    • Design, implementation, and maintenance of our public cloud infrastructure based on Proxmox and Ceph
    • Design, implementation, and maintenance of various high-availability e-commerce platforms for our customers
    • Administration of the email platform (SMTP, IMAP, DKIM, SPF, DANE)
    • Administration of the data center and various networks (OSI layers 1-7)
    • Administration of the edge routers and firewalls (BGP, OSPF, PPTP, etc.)
    • Administration of SiSeNet – Siemens’ Alarm-over-IP carrier network
    • Design, implementation, and maintanance of an email account takeover detection and prevention system
    • Design, implementation, and maintenance of an automation and configuration-management toolchain based on Ansible
    • Participation in 24/7 on-call rotation
    • Provide customer support
  2. HPC Engineer (Public Service)

    Berlin Institute of Health (via Max-Delbrück Center; Helmholtz Association)

    Responsibilities include:

    • Maintenance and expansion of the HPC for Charité Berlin
    • Administration of the networks, switches, routers, and firewalls
    • Design, implementation, and maintenance of various storage backends based on Ceph and ZFS
    • Administration of the SLURM cluster
    • Provide customer support
  3. Co-Founder / IT Consultant / DevOps Engineer

    Blunix GmbH

    Responsibilities include:

    • Design, implementation, and maintenance of an automation and configuration-management toolchain based on Ansible
    • Participation in 24/7 on-call rotation
    • Provide customer support
  4. AWS DevOps Engineer

    ImagineEasy Solutions (now Chegg)

    Responsibilities include:

    • Automating AWS infrastructure based on Chef
  5. Chief Technology Officer

    Heinlein-Support GmbH

    Responsibilities include:

    • Ensure operational continuity of the hosting infrastructure
    • SysAdmin Team-Lead
    • Spearhead the establishment of mailbox.org (in response to the revelations uncovered by the Snowden leaks)
    • Implement 2FA for mailbox.org based on FIDO/U2F (Yubikey)
    • Present technical talks at various conventions, such as the Chemnitzer Linux Days
    • Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation
    • Provide customer support
  6. Linux Systems Engineer

    SysEleven GmbH

    Responsibilities include:

    • Administration and expansion of the public cloud based on OpenVZ/Virtuozzo
    • Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation
    • Provide customer support
  7. Linux Systems Engineer / Linux Administrator

    Various small startups based in and around Berlin

    Responsibilities include:

    • Workstation provisioning and administration
    • Back-office administration
    • Server administration
    • Implementation of continuous deployment based on Git

Education

  1. Certified IT Systems Salesman

    German Chamber of Industry and Commerce
    Apprenticeship
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Programming
Scripting
SQL
Hobbies
EDM Production
Cats
Photography
Languages
100%
English
100%
German