Hi and welcome to my personal profile page!

Cloud Solution Architect / IT Engineer

Education:

• Graduate from HTL Villach - Informatics & Management in 2003
• During my work I went to a lot of technical and organizational classes & also got the chance to share my knowledge/skills internally

Experience:

• 1999 until 2003 - Worked as an IT administrator during my yearly internships at STRABAG SE - IT
• 2003 until 2022 - IT Engineer for Cloud operations at STRABAG SE - IT
• 2022 - Cloud Solution Architect at Nordcloud

Tech-Timeline

• 1999 - began to explore Linux (privately and in school)
• 1999 - i worked in IT during my first IT internship month (which happened yearly in the following years)
• 2003 - my work life started…
• 2003 - Windows / Citrix Terminalserver / Active Directory & automation via VBScript
• 2005 - Linux with Web-Services
• 2006 - Zabbix (Monitoring) & OpenVZ (Containervirtualisation)
• 2007 - Certificate management
• 2008 - Puppet configuration management
• 2010 - complete change to Linux topics only
• 2014 - GIT with GitLab (move from SVN)
• 2017 - Docker / Docker Swarm & GitLab CI/CD
• 2017 - GitOps
• 2018 - Ansible
• 2018 - Docker Meetups (Docker South Austria)
• 2018 - Let’s Encrypt
• 2018 - AWS & GCP - Public & Hybrid Cloud
• 2018 - Change Management
• 2019 - Terraform
• 2022 - starting a new opportunity…

Biography

• Over 18 years working in a small team of a central operations department, mainly focused on container and web technologies, automating all parts around it.
• Acting as a consultant for our internal customers to help them getting their projects (mostly Cloud nowadays) up and running in combination with external partners.

• I took the lead in implementing change management processes for our internally used software backed by Jira & Confluence.

• Working with Linux (mostly Ubuntu), provisioning with Ansible & Terraform, configuration management with Puppet, CI/CD with GitLab, certificate management for securing the traffic (with Let’s Encrypt, Cloud CA,…) and further technics more.

  • Using the GitOps approach to back all our automatics with versioned code

• Teaching my experience and knowledge to new team members, other internal and internship colleagues via on-boardings to our team and internal workshops.

• And I’m very happy that i got the chance to attend the DockerCon EU 2017 (in Copenhagen) & 2018 (in Barcelona).

• You can find further projects or talks on my projects site.

Skills:

• Change Management
  • with Jira & Confluence
• Certificate Management
  • with Let’s Encrypt (certbot), Cloud CA’s, internal PKI and bought certificates
• Containers
  • Docker, Kubernetes, OpenVZ
• Configuration Management
  • Open Source Puppet (including Foreman for visualization & reporting)
• Provisioning
  • Ansible & Terraform
• Web Technologies
  • Apache httpd, Apache tomcat, nginx
• Programming
  • Bash, Perl, Python, Go
• Operating Systems
  • Linux, mainly Ubuntu & Debian
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery & Deployment with GitLab
• Cloud Technologies
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Monitoring
  • Zabbix, Grafana/Prometheus/Alertmanager
• Backup
  • RSync, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Other tools to mention which I need/use regularly
  • GIT, VSCode, Hugo, VMWare, ElasticSearch/Kibana, CoreDNS, 1Password,…