About

About me

I started out researching artificial intelligence at TU Clausthal, writing papers and presenting at conferences in Budapest and Taipei — which taught me to think in systems and explain complex things clearly. Then the real world called, and I ended up deep in enterprise infrastructure: SANs, hypervisors, data center migrations, and everything in between.

Over the years I’ve led teams at Funke Technology and Rossmann, growing from systems architect to running a department of more than 50 people. When the Server, Storage & Cloud team got split in 2023, I chose my own successor for the infrastructure half — trained them up, handed it over — and took the cloud side myself as Head of Cloud Platform. Since April 2025 I’m one level up, with five departments reporting to me as Head of Hybrid Platform Services & Datacenter: Central Systems (IBMi, output management, EDI), Database & Automation (Oracle, Postgres, MSSQL, Redis, Automic), Server, Storage & Compute, Cloud Platform, and BIT — which covers data center operations, UPS, power backup, passive cabling, and the compute infrastructure at our warehouse locations. That progression feels right: I like building things that outlast me.

What keeps me sharp outside of work is my home lab. Right now I’m running a full self-hosted stack on MicroShift — GitOps with Flux, WireGuard, cert-manager with wildcard TLS, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Paperless, a mail stack, and monitoring — all bootstrapped from scratch on Btrfs with snapshot-based rollbacks. It’s the kind of thing that’s completely unnecessary and absolutely worth doing.

I also play table tennis — nothing serious, but I take it seriously enough. Originally from Ostfriesland, now living in Schwülper, Lower Saxony.

Career

Technologies & topics

Beyond work

• Table tennis (competitive amateur)
• Home lab: MicroShift + GitOps stack
• Board games
• Cooking