Michael “Svedrin” Ziegler

I can make a computer do anything.

Welcome to my portfolio site. Any questions? Mail me at i.am@svedr.in. Also, here's my GitHub.

Software

Electronics

Creative work

Biography

1986
  • spawned
2000
  • began programming using Visual Basic 5
2002
  • began playing with Linux on the desktop
2004
  • began programming with AMX Mod X
  • first AMXX plugin published as Open Source
2005
  • graduated from school (majored in physics and english)
  • began studying computer science in Heidelberg, coding all kinds of stuff
  • began coding the first WarriorMod clan war manager as a C++ Source Engine plugin
  • rented a Linux server to learn some admin stuff
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
  • graduated in 2010 (majored in computer science with an emphasis on telecommunications)
  • became Debian Maintainer in August
  • joined it-novum as a Consultant working on Open Source Storage and Virtualization clusters
2011
  • began developing openATTIC, a storage management system
2013
  • started working on Fluxmon, a distributed performance monitoring system
  • got into riding
2014
2015
2016
  • leading the datacenter team at PROEMION
  • started working on vmaker
2017
2018
2019
2022
2023
  • to be continued

Technical interests

Programming/scripting languages

Other software encountered along the way

LinuxDesktop since 2002, Server since 2005 (Debian, Ubuntu)
StorageRAID, LVM, NFS, Samba 4, DRBD, ZFS, Ceph, Performance Tuning
NetworkingCisco IOS, HP Aruba, HP FlexFabric, OpenVPN, iptables, FortiGate, STP, OSPF, BGP, VRRP, LLDP, FRR, UniFi, nginx, Asterisk, Postfix
DatabasesMySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, Cassandra, InfluxDB, SQL, Index-Tuning
QueuesZeroMQ, RabbitMQ
MonitoringPrometheus, Grafana, Loki, LogStash, Kibana, Zabbix, Nagios
SecurityTLS, RADIUS, libsodium
VirtualizationVMware, libvirt, KVM, oVirt, Proxmox
ContainersLXC, Docker, Portainer
CI/CDGit, GitHub, Puppet, Foreman, Ansible, Jenkins, DroneCI
dev FrontendHTML, CSS, jQuery, VueJS
dev BackendPython, Django, C, JavaScript, Go, Rust
dev EmbeddedArduino, Platform.io, NodeRED, MQTT
WindowsActive Directory, Network Policy Services, RADIUS

Languages

Sources of inspiration

Other interests

Memberships

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