Thomas Spitzlei
Senior Systemadministrator
Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Spitzlei is a seasoned Senior Systemadministrator with over 11 years in cloud computing, CI/CD and DevOps, currently managing multiple GitLab and Nextcloud instances alongside modern compute and storage systems at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. He brings deep hands-on experience across server and client solutions, virtualization, Docker, mail/fileservers and service orchestration, having supported both enterprise and small-business environments since the early 2000s. Comfortable bridging Windows and Linux operations, he also has legacy expertise with IBM mainframe and high-throughput print systems, which informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and scalability. Known for running production-facing collaboration platforms and automating operational workflows, he balances careful system administration with an eye for continuous delivery improvements. Based in Duisburg, he pairs long-term institutional knowledge with current cloud-native practices to keep academic services resilient and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Informatik, Informatik at Oberstufenzentrum Informationstechnik und Medizintechnik Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (54)
dialog9
large-scale8
pdf-format8
previews7
php7
webserver6
federated6
server6
javascript6
jquery5
tinyurl4
linux4
java4
webdav4
spring-boot4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spitzlei/little-ninja
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
fresh engine demo project
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
trinitycoreazerothcorededicated-servermuddemo-project
hhucn/docker-gravedigger
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
Kill running docker containers, except for those in the whitelist (suitable for GitLab CI)
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year
docker-containergitlab-ci
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