Purpose of this site

This site showcases some of my skills as applicable in a DevOps environment. To that end, I'm using some of the tools and follow the practices of the trade as I learned them even if they are entirely oversized for the task at hand.

The code for this website is publicly available in a version-controlled repository. Go ahead and click on the button in the top right to fork it in case you like what you see. The code passes a few simple automated checks before being automatically deployed from a CI/CD pipeline.

I am by no means a web developer or a graphics designer. I kindly ask that you don't judge me too harshly in that regard.

Skills

• decades of experience working remotely and in distributed FOSS teams
• highly proficient in Linux administration including headless and remote
  • desktop, server and embedded
  • mail server Postfix
  • MySQL/MariaDB including Galera Cluster
  • web server apache2 and nginx
  • django webframework
  • ...
• highly proficient in packaging software for Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives
• highly proficient in version-control systems, especially git
• highly proficient in bug-tracking and QA
• I am quadrilingual (German, English, Japanese, French)
• advanced knowledge of python
• good knowledge of bash scripting
• good knowledge of RegEx
• good knowledge of ansible
• good knowledge of gitlab CI
• good knowledge of docker, portainer and traefik
• self-starter and fast self-learner

Philosophy

• I live and breathe the command-line, including remote ssh, screen and tmux sessions
• I love good docs
• I believe in self-hosting and owning your data
• I believe in the importance of learning and an open mind
• I believe in sharing, respectful communication and meritocracy
• I believe in "release early and release often"
• I believe in incremental improvements (kaizen/改善)
• I believe in automation and carving out repeatable tasks
• I believe in the importance of attention to detail and ultimately aiming for perfection

Certificates & Awards

• first place on the June 2021 leaderboard at Python CheckIO
• Linkedin Succeeding in DevOps
• Linkedin Learning Docker
• IBM Data Analysis with Python
• IBM Python for Data Science
• HackerRank Python Basics

Shut up and show me the code

My contributions and snippets are still scattered around a number of places. I am in the process of making them more centrally available.

• code, content and CI/CD for this site
• portfolio HelloWorld project to build, test and securely deploy a dockerized HelloWorld webapp in an automated pipeline
• checkio.org - a great community for learning python and TypeScript
• HackerRank - requires login to view individual solutions
• my humble contributions to Ansible Galaxy