Me 👨‍💻

Hi, I’m Benjamin, 33 years old and based in Tyrol, Austria. After graduating from HTL Innsbruck where I came into contact with the hardware and software sides of the world, I decided to fully focus on software.

The first 2 years I spent working for holzweg, where I worked with PHP (Symfony, eZ Publish). Followed by a position at STI Innsbruck as a full-time Ruby (Rails) developer. I moved on to work for onlim (a spin-off from STI) where I spent most of my professional career so far.

During my whole time working as a developer, I was curious to learn new things while also trying to get a detailed understanding of the technologies I use. In my spare time, I’m currently refreshing my networking basics.

In addition to reading and (re-)learning the theory, I’m also trying to realize practical homelab projects:

• Docker/Podman containers running on a Raspberry Pi 5 using Alpine Linux:
  • Website
  • DNS level adblocking (PiHole)
  • energy consumption monitoring (HomeAssistant)
  • photo storage (PhotoPrism)
  • todo list (Vikunja)
• Lab k8s cluster on 3 Ubuntu hosts (2 Zotac ZBOX CI323 nano, 1 Fujitsu S920)

Skills

Backend

• Ruby (★★★★)
• TypeScript/Node.js (★★)
• PHP (previous experience, outdated)

Frontend (listing previous experience, outdated)

• HTML
• CSS / SCSS / SASS
• JavaScript (jQuery, Backbone.js)

Databases & more

• PostgreSQL (★★★)
• Redis (★)
• MongoDB (★)
• Kafka

DevOps

• Containerization (Docker/Podman/Compose) (★★★)
• Container Orchestration (Kubernetes) (★★)
• IaC (Terraform) (★)
• CI/CD (★★★★)
• Observability (Metrics, Logging, Tracing) (★★★)

Other Tools & Technologies I use

• Linux/Unix (Dev: Arch - Server: Alpine, Ubuntu)
• ZSH (with oh-my-zsh)
• Neovim (with coc)
• Git

Non coding ⛰️ 🏃

Besides loving to learn about new technologies or gaining more in-depth knowledge about already-used technologies, I have a big passion for sports and fitness. I love long, full day hiking trips as well as trying to stay in shape by doing regular strength exercises.