Systems administrator at Silicon Austria Labs by day — Linux fleets, virtualisation, containers, and a standing invitation to test the next open-source thing before it reaches production.
Off the clock: fifteen years of taking consumer hardware apart to see what makes it tick, a decade of Godot and gamejams, and whatever currently has my attention. There is a RJ45 cable in my boot.
How the skills relate to each other. Bigger bubbles are things I lean on; dashed ones are parked.
I run Linux infrastructure for a living and take consumer hardware apart for fun, which is a strange combination that mostly works out.
By day it’s fleet management across VMware, Proxmox and Xen/QEMU, Python
automation, and container platforms on Docker and Podman. Lately that has
pulled into AI research and development — local inference and evaluation
with llama.cpp, and working out where agents actually earn their keep.
Before the servers, there were Raspberry Pis, Orange Pis and Arduinos, an old Altera FPGA from eBay that I wrote VHDL and Verilog for, and a habit of dismantling things to see what was inside. I have never designed a board or a chip from scratch, and I am fairly comfortable saying so.
I test open-source software professionally and contribute back when I get the chance. Previously: anime fansubbing and translation work, a decade of Godot, weekly gamejams, and a stretch as a personal assistant for people who needed one. All of it parked for lack of time, which is the recurring theme.
…and the roles before this one. LinkedIn has the full history →
Keeping Linux infrastructure honest across the organisation: fleet management on VMware, Proxmox and Xen/QEMU, with a strong preference for AlmaLinux and Alpine.
Day to day that means Python automation, container platforms with
Docker and Podman, and evaluating open-source solutions before
anyone else has to find out whether they are any good. Recently
that has extended into AI research and development — mostly
local inference and evaluation with llama.cpp.
AlmaLinux and Alpine are the daily drivers; the server fleet is where the interesting problems live.
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30 years of Linux servers, 25 years of Linux on the desktop. Started before there was a desktop.
1995 →
Tests open-source software for a living and contributes back when there's a chance. 39 forks tracked across the ecosystem.
39 forks
Runs the virtual estate across Proxmox, VMware and Xen/QEMU. Automates the boring parts with Docker and Podman.
10y containers
Disassembled consumer hardware, re-purposed the parts, and wrote drivers for what came out. No boards or chips designed from scratch — yet.
4 IoT repos
34 own repositories, 30 stars. Best known for a Godot face-tracker built for VTubing and vstreaming.
34 repos · 30 ★
Godot and GDScript across 11 game repos, including a hex-grid display library and a music game. Weekly gamejams, plus a CI action that exports Godot projects.
11 game repos
Evaluating and running models locally with llama.cpp, and deciding where the agents earn their keep.
2y AI evaluation
Fifteen-odd languages over the years, from ANSI-C and Pascal/Delphi to ABAP, PHP, C#, Go and Rust.
15+ languages
Carries a fleet, answers tickets, and occasionally sleeps. Physically attached to the network, one way or another.
n/a
Systems analysis, road mapping and hobbyist project management. Good at scoping, historically bad at finishing.
15y analysis
Anime fansubber, team lead and translation provider for several open-source projects. Parked for lack of time.
on hiatus
Self-assessed beginner. The iron is currently more of a blunt instrument than a precision tool.
beginner
