Me 👨‍💻

Hi, I’m Benjamin, 32 years old and based in Tyrol, Austria. Currently, I’m working at onlim as a software engineer with a focus on backend and DevOps. 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’m still employed to date.

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. Nowadays, I’m using more JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js at work, while also doing technical deep dives into Kubernetes, Terraform and everything else DevOps related. In my spare time, I’m currently refreshing my networking basics by reading various books, as well as learning Go.

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

Baremetal server: 1 Rasbperry Pi 5, 2 Fujitsu Futro S920
Network stack: Ubiquiti Unifi
running PiHole, HomeAssistant, PhotoPrism, Vikunja and Grafana/Prometheus through Docker
self-hosting www.tak1n.at in my homelab

Also, I’m a big believer in OSS and try to give back to it by either contributing or sponsoring:

Skills

Backend

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PHP (previous experience, outdated)

Frontend (listing previous experience, outdated)

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

Databases & more

🐘 PostgreSQL (★★★)
🔑 Redis (★★★)
📄 MongoDB (★)
Kafka
Keycloak

DevSecOps

🕋 Docker/Compose (★★★★)
⚙️ Kubernetes (★★★)
🪐 IaC (Terraform, Helm) (★★)
🚢 CI/CD (★★★★)
🔬 Observability (Metrics, Logging, Tracing) (★★★★)
🔒 SIEM, Linux IDS/IPS (★)

Other Tools & Technologies I use

Linux (Arch, Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi OS)
ZSH (with oh-my-zsh)
Neovim (with coc)
VSCode (with PlatformIO)
Git
OpenAPI

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.