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
| Period | Role | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| April 2025 – present | Head of Hybrid Platform Services & Datacenter | Dirk Rossmann GmbH |
| 2023 – 2025 | Head of Cloud Platform | Dirk Rossmann GmbH |
| 2021 – 2023 | Head of Server, Storage & Cloud | Dirk Rossmann GmbH |
| 2016 – 2021 | Team Lead Server & Data | Funke Technology, Braunschweig |
| 2014 – 2016 | IT Systems Architect | Funke Corporate IT GmbH |
| 2008 – 2014 | Research Associate – AI | TU Clausthal |
Technologies & topics
Beyond work
- Table tennis (competitive amateur)
- Home lab: MicroShift + GitOps stack
- Board games
- Cooking