Michael “Svedrin” Ziegler

Welcome to my portfolio site. Any questions? Mail me at i.am@svedr.in.

Software ¶

openATTIC: comprehensive Storage management system
Fluxmon: system performance data analyzer
Mumble-Django: web interface for Mumble
FailPlay: minimalistic music player
RSS2IMAP: uploads RSS Feeds to an IMAP directory
Lockpick minigame from DreamFall: The longest Journey

Creative work ¶

Photography
Blog (check out the series about Storage performance)

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	nominated for the PHPClasses.org Innovation Award first job developing a database system for MEP OLBO using PHP/MySQL moved to Freiburg
2007	joined Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling as a sysadmin joined the Mumble community
2008	moved back to Fulda
2009	began development of Mumble-Django aced the CCNA Exploration courses
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	held a talk about storage performance at Chemnitzer Linuxtage got a horse started volunteering at Lamahausen took part in founding mag.lab E.V. Fulda
2015	joined PROEMION as a Linux administrator and systems architect, working on the next-generation telematics system
	to be continued...

Technical interests ¶

building infrastructure by integrating stuff
maximizing performance by choosing the right parts and using them the right way
writing software in a way that is understandable and maintainable by people

Programming/scripting languages ¶

Preferred:
- Python is great for expressing great concepts in little code.
- JavaScript, best served with AngularJS.
- C for the fidgety things.
- C# for when it has to be Windows.
Others used:
- C++
- Pawn
- PHP
- Bash

Other software encountered along the way ¶

oVirt, OpenStack
VMware
LaTeX
Jenkins
Samba 4
DRBD, Ceph
Postfix, Dovecot, Zarafa

KVM, LXC, Docker
Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus
Visual Studio
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra
IOS (the real thing by Cisco)
ExtJS, AngularJS
Asterisk

Profiles ¶

Languages ¶

German (native)
English (fluent)

Sources of inspiration ¶

Nico “mephisto” Wollenzin †
Philipp “nethead” Wollermann
Thorvald “Slicer” Natvig
Leonard “paniq” Ritter

Other interests ¶

Riding
South Park
Biking
Water skiing / Swimming
Climbing
Audio stuff
Electronics

Memberships ¶

Skill is when luck becomes a habit.