I am currently working as a Senior Linux and DevOps Engineer focusing on maintainance and improvment of a highly avaailable billing plattform.
I was working as a Senior DevOps Engineer.
- implemented and operated highly available web services in the Cloud (AWS, GCP)
- administration and performance optimizations of SQL databases (MySQL, Postgresql)
- 3rd level trouble shooting of highly complex web applications
- Configuration Management with terraform and ansible
- automation and scriping with Bash and PHP
- Implementation and Improvements to CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab (including migration from Jenkins)
- adopt legacy deployment to a container based deployment
- migrated multiple projects into a “monorepo”
Senior System Administrator
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Ixolit GmbH
Sep 2010 - Jan 2019
I was a member of the IT operations department focusing on Linux.
- Develop and maintain highly scaleable web projects (network design, monitoring, high availabilty and load balancing)
- administration of highly available databases (Percona MySQL, Postgresql, Elasticsearch)
- planning and performing service migrations respecting minimal downtime
- automating processes by using scripts (bash, PHP, Python)
- configuration management (puppet and ansible)
- network administration (ethernet, routing, VPNs)
- patiently debugging highly complex problems
- implementing a PCI-DSS conform infrastrucutre [Level 1 Service Provider]
- participating in on-call duty
- assistent head of operations
System Administrator
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Xion AG
Jan 2009 - Aug 2010
I was a member of the IT operations department focusing on Linux.
- Maintained 40 (virtual) servers accross three different datacenters in different countries
- Performed an Upgrade on the distributed Checkpoint Firewall
- Participating in a project to replace the legacy infrastructure with an VMware setup
- Participating in the on-call duty rotation
CTO and Co-founder
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ISSP
Jun 2001 - Jun 2009
Co-Founder and CTO of an ISP providing the following services for over 500 customers including many business customers
- Domains
- Email
- Webspace
- Virtual Servers
During the time I developed a custom customer panel and setup an highly available infrastructure.
The following software was used:
- Xen
- Linux
- Apache
- PHP
- Postfix
- Dovecot
- ProFTPd
- MySQL