About me
The person behind bae.hr.
Over ten years in IT, one principle: build systems that never wake anyone at night.
From server room to platform.
My first servers went online when I was a teenager: services, websites and hosting for friends and acquaintances. What began as curiosity became craft, and craft became a standard.
The hobby turned into a profession: an apprenticeship and several years at a web hoster, where reliable operations aren't a nice-to-have but the product itself. After that, as a systems engineer, came larger environments, more automation and more responsibility.
Today I build platforms that make deployments boring. Boring in the best sense: reproducible, monitored, documented. What has stayed is the joy of simplifying complex systems until they almost run themselves.
- Pragmatic solutions instead of a tool zoo
- Automation with good judgment, documented and ready for handover
- Clear communication in German or English
- Honest estimates and reliable availability
Milestones
Production out of enthusiasm
Services, websites and hosting for friends, run on my own servers. The first systems I was on call for at night.
Operations as the product
Apprenticeship and years in hosting operations: Linux, networks, mail and DNS at volume. Systems that simply have to run, around the clock.
Automation with responsibility
Larger environments, deeper automation: infrastructure as code, deployments without heroics. Systems that teams rely on every day.
DevOps, end to end
Independent: architecture, build and operations from one engineer. Plus eight products of my own, from first idea to running operation.
Milestones
Production out of enthusiasm
Services, websites and hosting for friends, run on my own servers. The first systems I was on call for at night.
Operations as the product
Apprenticeship and years in hosting operations: Linux, networks, mail and DNS at volume. Systems that simply have to run, around the clock.
Automation with responsibility
Larger environments, deeper automation: infrastructure as code, deployments without heroics. Systems that teams rely on every day.
DevOps, end to end
Independent: architecture, build and operations from one engineer. Plus eight products of my own, from first idea to running operation.
You can tell good infrastructure by the fact that nobody has to talk about it.