name: Jan
role: Cloud Engineer
location: Koblenz, Germany π©πͺ
focus:
- Kubernetes & OpenShift in production
- GitOps with ArgoCD and Tekton
- Building open-source tooling for cloud-native teams
fun_fact: I run my home lab on a Raspberry Pi cluster and a UGREEN NAS.I'm a Cloud Engineer who lives at the intersection of platforms, automation, and developer experience. By day I work with Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters; by night I build open-source tools that make cloud-native workflows less painful.
- π Open source β maintaining
kubeseal-webgui, a community Web UI for Bitnami Sealed Secrets - π¦ Rust β building
hoppr - π Python β working on
day-pilot - π Home lab β provisioning my self-hosted stack with Ansible (
home-server)
π More projects worth checking out
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| π kubeseal-webgui | Web UI for Bitnami Sealed Secrets β encrypt secrets without touching the CLI | Vue.js Β· Python Β· Helm |
| πΉ tether | Go utility project | Go |
| π§© TinyTeller | Small TypeScript app | TypeScript |
| π± fantasy-pokedex | Host your own fantasy PokΓ©dex | Vue.js |
| π₯οΈ home-server | Home server provisioning & self-hosting setup | Ansible |
| βοΈ advent-of-code | Advent of Code solutions, mostly in Go | Go |
A personal playground where I break things on purpose so I don't break them at work.
- π¦ Self-hosted services (incl. Paperless-ngx) running on a UGREEN NAS
- π Ansible playbooks for provisioning, patching, and config β see
home-server - βΈοΈ Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster for experimenting with manifests and operators
- π₯οΈ VPS fleet managed via Infrastructure-as-Code
- π Prometheus + Grafana for keeping an eye on it all





