// DevOps · Monitoring · Automation · Fullstack · Hamburg, DE
01 // About
I've always been drawn to complex systems – how they work, why they fail, what holds them together. As a kid I was listening to audio series where Einstein narrated the history of inventions – how the hot air balloon came to be, how the car was developed – while others listened to fairy tales. Later it was black holes, quantum field theory, particle accelerators. Not because I had to – because I needed to understand how things actually work.
When I finished school I wasn't sure which direction to take. Game development, fullstack, systems engineering, science – all of it felt relevant. I ended up training as a laboratory technician, thinking physics, chemistry, and biology would scratch that itch. It did, for a while. But lab work is repetitive by nature, and I quickly realized what I actually wanted was to design systems, not run the same protocol every day.
So I pivoted to IT. Not randomly – I'd already been experimenting with Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript on the side. And IT turned out to be exactly what I was looking for: the same bug can have ten different root causes, new technologies appear constantly, and you never really stop learning. I love building and understanding concepts – the more complex the mechanism, the more interesting. Astrophysics and quantum mechanics became a hobby again, which is honestly when I started enjoying them more.
Now I'm finishing my apprenticeship in Hamburg, spending most of my time in monitoring and automation. I like problems that require you to understand the whole system before you can fix one part. Troubleshooting feels like solving a puzzle – and I mean that as a compliment. I'm autistic, which probably explains the depth, the directness, and the need to actually understand things rather than just make them appear to work.
02 // Tech Stack
A focused set of technologies I actually use – no buzzword-bingo, no padding.
03 // Projects
Real problems, real solutions. No toy apps.
A custom monitoring system for hybrid cloud environments. A self-developed orchestrator collects metrics, states, and events from distributed environments via a satellite-agent mix, normalizes them, and makes them analyzable. First prototype running on Azure.
Accessibility platform helping people with disabilities find out if a location works for them – in under 10 seconds. Community-verified data, individual filters per disability type. Built accessibility-first from day one.
Supported the replacement of a legacy NetApp MetroCluster – hardware installation, commissioning, then coordinated hardware change at both datacenter sites simultaneously. Real stakes, real time pressure.
Controllable automated feeder with IoT-based behavior recording and analysis. Time patterns as inference for animal wellbeing and potential health risks.
04 // Experience
Two apprenticeships, several environments, one consistent thread: going deep.
05 // Contact
Open to interesting conversations, collaborations, and opportunities. If you met me somewhere and want to stay in touch – this is the right place.
I'm finishing my apprenticeship and working on Accessly in parallel. If you have an interesting project, want to collaborate, or just want to talk tech – reach out.
Response time: usually within 1–2 days.
Language: German or English, both fine.