About Me

Hi, I’m Robert. On my private blog I write about everything that comes to my mind, but mainly about topics from the Linux and open source world. I’m a Linux Engineer, open source enthusiast and a self-hosting geek.

My Linux journey began almost 10 years ago, for more than half of them maintaining and managing Linux server deployments in professional environments is my daily business.


Experience

ownCloud
System Administrator
May 2019
ownCloud is an open-source file sync, share and content collaboration software. As a System Administrator at ownCloud I’m responsible for the operation and availability of the company infrastructure. That also including the Continuous Integration platform based on Drone CI which is a fundamental component for the development of our products.
Schwarz IT
Linux Engineer
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
The Schwarz IT is the central IT service provider of the Schwarz Group where the main customers are the two retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland. During my work as part of the Linux Server team, one challenge was to design a test-driven infrastructure environment using Ansible and Ansible Tower for more than 4.000 Linux servers in three different data centers to replace the existing Puppet configuration management.
Kaufland
First Level Support
Jul 2013 - Aug 2014
While working in the First Level Support Team of the Kaufland distribution center of Barsinghausen, the main task was to provide support for all problems related to the soft- and hardware environment of the employees and the retail ERP solution (SAP).

Education

BS Business Informatics
DHBW Baden-Wuerttemberg
Sep 2014 - Sep 2017
Bachelor thesis: “Selection and prototypical implementation of a configuration management solution for Linux.”
IT specialist
IHK Cottbus
Sep 2010 - Jun 2013

Skills

Operations

Linux
100 %
Ansible
100 %
Terraform
80 %
Docker
80 %
Kubernetes
20 %

Development

Python
80 %
Golang
60 %

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