Tobias Rueetschi
Systems Engineer
Summary
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RockstarTobias Rueetschi is a Systems Engineer with 11 years' hands-on experience specializing in Linux, BSD, and Unix environments and a strong focus on automation and configuration management. He is an active open-source contributor to key projects like DebOps and Ansible, where he has improved Debian-based data center tooling and expanded Ansible’s Univention Corporate Server modules for user, DNS, and group management. Tobias blends deep systems-level expertise (Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL/Postgres integrations) with pragmatic automation practices, often contributing templated, deployable solutions rather than one-off fixes. Colleagues rely on him to bridge operational needs and maintainable code, and his work shows an aptitude for adapting legacy integrations to modern libraries and APIs.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
ldap10
python10
post10
package-development10
plugin-development10
deb10
html-template10
dovecot10
python-templates10
code-templates10
automation10
apptemplates10
postfix-notation10
yaml10
ansible10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the development of Ansible modules for Univention Corporate Server (UCS). Their work involved implementing common code, refactoring API changes, and adding module documentation for the UCS UMC modules. They also created and modified modules for DNS records, group management, and user management, as well as fixing issues, updating documentation, and adapting to new library versions. These changes span multiple modules demonstrating a focus on integrating Ansible with UCS.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
ansible/ansible-modules-extras
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Ansible extra modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 PRs, 24 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tobias's contributions primarily focus on developing and maintaining modules for the Ansible automation platform. They added new modules, specifically for managing users, shares, DNS records, and groups within a Univention Corporate Server (UCS) environment. The user also refactored and updated existing modules, adapting them to new libraries and changing parameters. Their work centered on expanding Ansible's capabilities for UCS administration.
ansible
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