Systems & Database Engineer | 📍 Vienna, Austria
I engineer high-availability, bare-metal infrastructure, automate lifecycle management, and architect resilient database topologies. I bridge the gap between low-level Linux administration, deep PostgreSQL optimization, and secure DataSecOps.
- Domain Expertise: FinTech, Bank, and Healthcare Infrastructure.
- Platform Engineering: Architecting zero-downtime, bare-metal container orchestration and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Data Engineering: Building privacy-preserving, high-throughput event streaming pipelines and resilient database topologies.
- DevSecOps & Compliance: Enforcing PCI-DSS and DORA compliance through automated vulnerability scanning, strict IAM, and zero-trust architectures.
- Systems Engineering: Zero-downtime container orchestration, Proxmox VE, Linux hardening, and IaC.
- Database Administration: PostgreSQL HA clustering, tuning, partitioning, and Kafka streaming.
- Infrastructure Security: Zero-trust, IAM, and compliance automation.
High-impact profiles present their stack as an organized grid and categorize technologies by layer.
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Cloud & Infrastructure | Kubernetes, Docker, Proxmox VE, Linux (Debian) |
| Automation & IaC | Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD Pipelines |
| Data & Messaging | PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Vectorized Python (Polars) |
| Systems Programming | Go,C, C++, Python, Bash |
| Security & Observability | HashiCorp Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, IAM |
| Project | What it proves |
|---|---|
| fintech-kafka-pipeline-mock | Kafka → PII masking → PostgreSQL OLTP/OLAP separation for PCI-DSS-style compliance |
| proxmox-debian-terraform-ansible | Terraform Proxmox VM provisioning + Ansible hardening (SSH, UFW, fail2ban) |
| sentielflow | CI/CD security gatekeeper — secrets, IaC, dependencies, OPA policies, SARIF |
| secure-ci-cd-template | Forkable GitHub template with Trivy + Gitleaks gates before Docker deploy |
| libft | Systems programming foundation — custom C library, memory ownership, libc primitives |
| platformforge | Local-first platform engineering school with Docker labs and deterministic validation |
- Editor of Choice: 100% terminal-centric. You will find me living inside Neovim, Tmux, and CLI-based AI agents.
- Downtime: When I'm not tuning write-ahead logs, I'm usually optimizing grand strategy campaigns in Hearts of Iron IV or surviving boss fights in Sekiro.
- Let's Connect: LinkedIn