10+ years of engineering. Has seen the fallacies of distributed computing. Still enjoys working and researching in the industry. Loves tuning, scaling and securing of distributed systems - building on and contributing to great Free & Open Source Software. Above all: getting to meet brilliant people, exchange ideas and work on exciting projects all the time! I am self-employed and primarily do engineering work, consulting and research on IT Infrastructure Architecture, Operations & Development, Applied Cryptography, High Performance Computing and Information Security. I've held talks on DevOps, HPC and Security related topics at various venues - from local meetups to internationally recognized conferences. Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pMyYN5wAAAAJ