Profile

Experienced Network Engineer with a history of working for an ISP & IXP, deploying highly reliable network solutions on a large scale.

Experiences

Senior Network & Infrastructure Engineer

2024 - current
WIIT AG

The previous company was bought by WIIT AG. Additionally:

  • Creating training courses & materials for colleagues
  • Maintaining an IPv6 mostly management infrastructure and combining the different networks of the former companies
  • Interims Teamlead Network Operations
  • BSI IT-Grundschutz Certification
  • BSI KRITIS Certification
  • ISO 27001 Certification

Senior Network & Infrastructure Engineer

2021 - 2024
German Edge Cloud GmbH & Co. KG
  • Responsible for Firewalling & Network Security
  • Responsible for our Infrastructure Management based on ansible
  • Maintaining the MPLS ring’s betweens our datacenters
  • Consulting for other Teams in regards to questions about networking, (network) security & IPv6
  • Working as a technical expert during incidents as part of the companies incident response team as well as participating in the on-call schedule to satisfy our customers needs in highly reliable systems
  • Developing & maintaining specialised solutions based on customer needs.

Self Employed

2020 - present
Thies Mueller Service Solutions
  • Supporting the IT needs for small & medium NGOs
  • Creating specialised tools
  • Consulting on network and network security needs
  • Planning and operating event networks & infrastructure

Network Engineer

2019 - 2021
WOBCOM GmbH, Wolfsburg
  • Performing troubleshooting for Juniper-, Cisco-, and Fortinet Appliances to ensure a reliable network for our customers
  • Managing Firewalls and VPN Systems, keeping up the high security demands for our customers, as well as our internal systems
  • Working as a technical expert during incidents as part of the companies incident response team as well as participating in the on-call schedule to satisfy our customers needs in highly reliable systems
  • Managed the web servers, hosting company owned and customer websites with Plesk, nginx and apache2

System & Network Administration

2017 - 2018
Volke Kommunikations-Design GmbH, Wolfsburg
  • Deployed and managed the corporates antivirus and security solution, including the whole corporates technical systems, resulting in an increased overall security for the company
  • Designed, planned, deployed, and leading the implementation project of the new company network infrastructure, incorporating Juniper products, including routers, switches, and firewalls, consolidating a highly heterogeneous network into a much easier to manage setup, resulting in a increased system reliability and security
  • Management of the servers, vmhosts, and virtual machines for the hosting of the web applications provided to customers, as well as internal services using state of the art technology like nginx

Trainee "Fachinformatiker Systemintegration"

2014 - 2017
Volke Kommunikations-Design GmbH, Wolfsburg
  • Learned about security services by working in multiple implementation projects for security services, like fortigate and sophos firewalls
  • Learned about network and server side automation to automatically deploy new and maintain existing applications inside the company as well as customer applications
  • Deployed a new asset management solution to effectively keeping track of the companies assets across the workplaces and inside the datacenter
  • Managed the Windows 7 environment inside the company
  • Worked in the IT-HelpDesk for the internal staff to ensure smooth day-to-day operations of the company

Projects

These are some projects I'm currently a part of or where formerly a part of:

rC3 - Technical Lead for the rC3 infrastructure Team & the rC3 (until 2022)
RegattaTech.DE - Applications for Dragonboat Events.
161host.NET - Hosting for leftist groups & organisations
Event Logistics @ CCC Events - At the on-premise events of the CCC I'm working in the internal logistics.
Jugend hackt Infrastructure - Together with others we build a system based on open source tools for Jugend hackt Events & Labs

Extra-Curricular Activities

  • Event Logistics @ CCC Events
  • Chaos Computer Club e.V. / Chaos Computer Club Veranstaltungs GmbH
    2015 - present
  • Technical Project Lead @ rC3
  • Chaos Computer Club e.V. / Chaos Computer Club Veranstaltungs GmbH
    2020 - 2022
  • Jugend hackt
  • Jugend hackt (OKFN e. V. / mediale Pfade e. V.)
    2021 - present
  • Vorstand Lokaler Verein für Jugend hackt
  • Alpakas coden alles bunter e. V.
    2024 - present

    Skills & Proficiency

    Network Architecture

    Firewall

    Juniper (MX, SRX, EX, PTX, QFX)

    Cisco (ASA, Switches, Router)

    Palo Alto Networks

    FortiNet (AP, Firewall, Switch)

    Sophos (SG & XG)

    NVIDIA / Mellanox

    Aruba

    Unifi

    Linux

    macOS

    Windows

    Mellanox Onyx

    Cumulus Linux

    VMware

    Proxmox

    nginx

    frr

    bird

    PowerDNS

    docker

    ansible

    git

    IPv6

    BGP

    MPLS

    EVPN

    python

    php

    bash

    Vulnerability Management

    Incident Management

    BSI IT-Grundschutz

    BSI KRITIS

    ISO 27001