hey!

I'm a site reliability engineer and software engineer with a focus on web technologies and cloud-native computing. I do stuff mostly with Go, Typescript, Containers, and Kubernetes. Apart from that, I like pizza, espresso, and beautiful typefaces (Like the one you're looking at).

Current Work & Projects

I got my master's degree in computer science at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Aside from that, I've been working on several projects, mostly open-source software:

A Go library for encoding, decoding and working with IPFIX packets, the IETF's open successor for Cisco's NetFlow for network monitoring (https://github.com/zoomoid/go-ipfix)
Terraform module for provisioning nodes and bootstrapping Kubernetes through kubeadm on Hetzner Cloud (https://github.com/zoomoid/terraform-hcloud-k8s)
A Kubernetes Operator for automatically creating Kubeconfigs for new cluster users (https://github.com/zoomoid/kubeconfig-operator)
A Kubernetes bootstrapping controller for signing Kubelet Serving TLS certificates automatically (https://github.com/zoomoid/tbctrl)
Waveman, a Golang programm that turns your MP3s into stylized waveforms for cool showcasing (https://github.com/zoomoid/waveman2)

Past Work

In the past I've worked, both academically and professionally, on

writing my Master's Thesis on leveraging IPFIX's more elaborate data types and features for better network security monitoring and forensics,
Writing a seminar paper on “Methods for DevOps & Site Reliability Engineers” (slides),
Frontend projects on several ends, adoption of GitOps for Kubernetes, and Cloud advancement at anny,
designing, writing, and maintaining software from start to finish for space6, recycled e-ink displays that tightly integrate into the anny bookings software,
Building a new website and CMS for Eventbuddy,
Doing distributed data processing Kubernetes Operators (and wrote a bachelor's thesis about it),
Writing another paper, this time about about shardable byzantine fault-tolerant blockchain architecture (in 2018, before crypto took off),
a go cli and tooling plus LaTeX class for making university homework assignments more convenient (https://github.com/zoomoid/assignments)
Other bits and bobs of open-source projects, available on Github.

Contact

You can reach me via e-mail at hello [at] alexanderbartolomey.de

Otherwise, feel free to slide into my DMs on LinkedIn.

For professional inquiries, I'd like you to use e-mail.