Hi, my name is Alex!

I am a software engineer, Linux enthusiast and a friend of lightweight, resilient systems.

My journey in the tech world has been a dynamic one. I've immersed myself in countless projects spanning various video games and, for the past few years, have been maintaining a small homelab, which ignited my passion for DevOps / SRE. I am a privacy enthusiast and advocate for non-invasive software. Occasionally, I channel my creativity into building sleek web applications that prioritize efficiency and adhere to web standards and best practices.

Currently, I'm pursuing a Master's degree in computer science at TUM , where I successfully contribute to numerous research papers.

Skills

• Lightweight virtualisation (LXC, Docker)
• Kubernetes
• Cloud Computing / IaaS (AWS, Cloudflare)
• Web development (fullstack; React, Next, Svelte, vanilla, Rust+WASM)
• Scripting and automation (Bash, Python)
• git and GitOps pipelines
• Linux administration

Highlighted Projects

• Lightweight low-latency virtual networking - B.Sc. thesis: Evaluate the performance of containers in low-latency networking
• This site - Complete source code for this website
• Gear Optimizer (GW2) - MMO Guild Wars 2: Outputs the optimal build given numerous input paramaters; 1000 DAUs
• Discretize.eu (GW2) - MMO Guild Wars 2: Advanced player guides; 3000 DAUs
• discretize-ui (GW2) - MMO Guild Wars 2: UI library for mirroring in game tooltips with React
• Gw2Library (GW2) - MMO Guild Wars 2: Build library interfacing with the optimizer; CRUD app - NextJS, AWS
• LandLord - Minecraft plugin for protecting and managing areas - Java (until 2018)