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title: 'About Me'
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date: 2017-12-01T10:00:48+01:00
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{{< figure src="me.jpg" width="1200" height="800" >}}
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{{< icon "address-card" >}} Hi, my name is Marco Blessing and I live in the south of Germany near a city called
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[Karlsruhe](https://goo.gl/maps/kDpo6bb9V2r).
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### {{< icon "terminal" >}} Projects
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2022-01-04 09:27:51 +01:00
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Take a look at this [Projects](/) page to get an overview of my current work.
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2021-12-23 11:08:00 +01:00
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### {{< icon "heart" >}} Favorite Topics
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I'm very interested in **PowerShell**, **NodeJS**, **Go** and **Software Engineering** in general.
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Additionally I love building **CI/CD Stacks** with different open-source products to spread the word
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of **DevOps** and **Containerization**.
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### {{< icon "cubes" >}} Skills
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_Here comes a list of subjects I've worked with, grouped by topics..._
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#### {{< icon "cube" >}} Container and {{< icon "docker" >}}Docker related
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Traefik • Portainer • Docker Swarm Mode • Sonatype Nexus Repository • Aquasecurity Trivy •
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Prometheus • Node-Exporter • cAdvisor • Alertmanager • Karma
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#### {{< icon "code" >}} Scripting and Programming Languages
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PowerShell • JavaScript • Go • Python • PHP • Object Pascal • C++ • Visual Basic
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#### {{< icon "terminal" >}} Operating Systems
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Microsoft Windows 98SE++ • Microsoft Windows Server 2000++ •
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CentOS _(and other Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives)_ • SLES • ubuntu
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#### {{< icon "cloud" >}} Cloud Orchestration and Automation
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Microsoft Azure • eCloud Manager • FLOWSTER Studio • Citrix Cloud Platform • Citrix Cloud Platform Business Manager
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#### {{< icon "cogs" >}} Server Roles, Features and Products
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Active Directory • File Server • Web Server _(IIS and Apache)_ •
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DBs _(MSSQL, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle 10g)_ • Backup & Restore _(IBM Tivoli Storage Manager)_ •
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Server Hypervisor _(VMWare ESX, HyperV)_ • Terminal Server _(Microsoft, Citrix XenApp/ XenDesktop)_ •
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Software Virtualization _(VMware ThinApp)_ • Software Packaging and Deployment _(Enteo Netinstall, Matrix42)_
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• Monitoring _(Zabbix)_ • Build Engines _(Jenkins, AppVeyor)_
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#### {{< icon "cog" >}} General Software
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HAproxy • Keepalive • git SCM • Phabricator • VSCode • Notepad++
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### {{< icon "briefcase" >}} Experience
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#### {{< icon "calendar-alt" >}} 2018 - 202{{< icon "question" >}} {{< icon "building" >}} [Komm.ONE](https://komm.one) as **SysOp** / **DevOps Engineer**
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{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}} **2019** Internal Self Service Portal
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I spent the second half of the year creating a single-page application based on [Vue.js](https://vuejs.org/) for
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visualizing product changelog and configuration details. Therefore I had to relearn javaScript and started working
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with the [materialize-css](https://materializecss.com/) framework and other well known node modules.
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{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}} **2019** Release Management Tool MkII
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First part of the year I was focused on expanding the Release Management tools and workflows for our cloud hosted
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applications:
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- Added automated aggregation of release details for each hosted application.
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- Added changelog workflow for documenting releases.
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- Defined rollout life cycle states for each new release.
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- ITIL compliant syncing of the release data into centralized CMDB.
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{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}} **2018** KIVBF merged with its partners to form Komm.ONE in order
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to be able to offer uniform services. After adjusting the internal organizational structure, I'm now part of the
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business unit 4.2 _(Integration-, Security- & Application Managent)_. My previous team was reassigned to this new
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unit as well, and was renamed into CAFS _(Cloud- & Application-Frontend-Services)_. So my range of tasks changed
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slightly.
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#### {{< icon "calendar-alt" >}} 2012 - 2018 {{< icon "building" >}} [KIVBF](https://www.kivbf.de) as **SysOp** / **DevOps Engineer**
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{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}} **2015** In 2015 I started automating several platform and workload
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related use cases. Unfortunately it's closed source, so I can't talk about details. But to give a glimpse at the
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underlining technologies I can notice they were based on **Microsoft**, **VMware** and **Citrix** products.
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{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}} **2014** As the automation team got bigger and bigger, we needed to
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define standards. That's why I began using [Phabricator](https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/) as a developer
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framework in combination with [Jenkins](https://jenkins.io/) to build our modules. This enabled us doing code
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review, lint tests,unit test and building our own CI Environment.
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{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}} **2013** I joined into a new team which was building our new cloud
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infrastructure. We purposed to offer our customers IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and EaaS services. My focus shifted
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to automation and cloud orchestration. Back then I started using Powershell.
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{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}} **2012** I needed to get away from those wacky enterprise applications
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which were used in the public sector. So I took the chance to work in much bigger datacenter at
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[KIVBF](https://www.kivbf.de). There I ran the backup and restore solution called IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
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It was a great place to get to know such large environment and I finally started automating again. At this time I
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implemented the monitoring system [Zabbix](http://www.zabbix.com/). Unfortunately I couldn't find any extension to
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monitor out IBM tape library or TSM data itself. So I developed own interfaces therefore.
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#### {{< icon "calendar-alt" >}} 2008 - 2012 {{< icon "building" >}} [Pforzheim municipal administration](https://www.pforzheim.de/) as **SysOp**
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At the municipal administration of Pforzheim I was responsible for the**Software Packaging and Deployment**,
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**MS-SQL Servers** and **Web Hosting**.
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### {{< icon "graduation-cap" >}} Education
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I successfully finished two undergraduate trainings as **IT Specialist For Application Development** and
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**Management Assistant in IT-Systems**.
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