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About Me

Hi! I am Michael, think of me as the bridge between code, infrastructure, and the occasional existential crisis about why everything worked in staging but not in production. If you’re here for my CV, don’t worry—it’s well-documented and mostly free of breaking changes.

Work Experience #

Freelance – Software Solutions & IT Consulting #

📅 Since December 2022

  • Software development using Java/Kotlin, Python, .NET/C#, HTML/CSS/JS
  • Support for software integration projects and cloud migration (Azure)
  • IT consulting in procurement, IT processes, configuration/security, license management
  • Full software lifecycle support (requirements, development, deployment, support)
  • Reference projects:
    • Distributed browser automation with Selenium, Redis, Python (Hybrid Hosting: Local + Azure)
    • Smartcard administration system with desktop client, web frontend, and .NET API
    • Migration of a local Exchange system to Office365 Exchange Online
    • Automation component for internal resource management (Spring Boot, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, REST, VMWare)

Cloudflight Austria GmbH (formerly Catalysts Digital Solutions GmbH) #

📅 October 2018 – December 2024
Senior Site Reliability Engineer & Consultant

  • Technical project management for private cloud and container solutions (OpenStack, OpenShift, Kubernetes)
  • Support for agile development processes with SCRUM/Kanban (moderation, mediation, process optimization)
  • Lead of the internal “Community of Practice: IT-Security”
  • Training programs on Linux containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift (eLearning & workshops)
  • Planning and support of complex OIDC/OAuth2 solutions (Keycloak)
  • Consulting on SRE and BCM topics with a focus on container deployments
  • Development and operation of CI/CD solutions (TeamCity, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
  • Administration and support of Linux and Windows systems

Federal Ministry of the Interior – Various Positions #

📅 November 2012 – September 2018

  • Lead responsibility for data systems & backup
  • Setup and operation of internal hosting platforms
  • Development of internal automation solutions
  • Planning and operation of virtualization systems (KVM, Hyper-V, VMware)
  • Support for data center projects and service integration

Education #

FH Technikum Wien #

📅 2019 – 2021 (not completed)
MSc Software Engineering

  • Software architecture & quality assurance
  • ML & Data Science fundamentals, Graph/Document databases
  • Reactive systems with WebSockets, Kafka, RabbitMQ
  • Basics of functional programming with F#

📅 2015 – 2018
BSc Communications and Information Systems

  • Object-oriented programming (C#, Java)
  • UNIX system & microcontroller programming (C)
  • Agile methods & IT security (specialization)

📅 2003 – 2010
Federal Secondary College of Engineering (HBLVA) for Chemical Industry

  • Focus: Chemical business management & marketing
  • 2 years school representative, 1 year deputy national student representative

Skills #

Programming Languages #

Java/Kotlin, Python, .NET/C#, JavaScript, Go, PHP, C, Powershell, VBA

Databases & Messaging Systems #

MySQL/MariaDB, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT

Operating Systems #

Windows (Client & Server), Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, CoreOS)

Virtualization & Containerization #

Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenStack, OpenShift, KVM, VMWare

CI/CD & Configuration Management #

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, TeamCity, Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, Helm

Tools & Services #

Git, Bash, VSCode, IntelliJ, IIS, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat

Cloud Technologies #

  • Azure: AKS, Container Services, VMs, FrontDoor, MariaDB, Storage, Networking
  • AWS: EC2, EKS, SES

Languages #

🇩🇪 German (Native)
🇬🇧 English (C1)

Certifications #

📜 2023 – CKA, Certified Kubernetes Administrator
📜 2023 – ITIL4 Foundation - IT Service Management Certification
📜 2022 – AZ900, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals