Lukas

About me and what I do.

hello

My name is Lukas, and I'm a software engineer based in Germany. I enjoy tinkering with electronics, especially when it comes to IoT, and I also maintain a homelab where I run my services on a virtualized Kubernetes cluster¹. In the past, I used to configure different Linux distros, such as Gentoo, but I haven't had much time for it lately. In terms of outdoor activities, I love skiing, hiking, and biking.

focus

Regarding my education, I have a B.Eng. in automotive computer science, with a strong background in embedded systems and an M.Sc. in applied computer science, with a focus on complex software systems and data science.

Alongside my studies, I've worked in engineering for two prominent German car manufacturers and am now employed as a software engineer by a scale-up that is developing an advanced logistics operations SaaS platform.

languages

In terms of languages, I'm fluent in several languages, including:

• 🇩🇪 German
• 🇺🇸 English
• 🇧🇷 Portuguese
• 🇪🇸 Spanish

skills

When it comes to programming languages and digital technologies, I'm skilled in²:

background

I started "working" with computers and software when I was about 12 years old, hosting a small Minecraft server with different custom mods for my friends and I to play together. In high school, I started dabbling in web development and Python scripts for fun³, as well as building computers for myself and close relatives.

In my bachelor studies, I learned about low level software development, operating systems -- the lectures heavily focused on RTOS for embedded systems -- and hardware integration. Consequently, a substantial part of the degree focused on circuitry and signal processing. Nevertheless, my bachelor thesis revolved around higher level software: I developed a portable push notification service, which interfaced with Apple's APNS, could manage multiple notification targets and came with a demo app written in SwiftUI.

During my master's studies, I moved my focus to higher level software concepts. Although my degree mainly revoled around complex software systems⁴ and data science, I also had lectures and labs on other topics. For example, I really enjoyed researching an iOS GPU exploit⁵ in the context of a mobile ITSEC seminar and implementing complex algorithms for a computational geometry lecture. As for my master's thesis: I developed a novel approach to anomaly detection for AMRs leveraging deep neural networks.

During the first semester of my master, I also started building my homelab and fell into a deeeeep rabbit hole. Now, most of the services I use on a daily basis are hosted on my own highly available infrastructure⁶ consisting of multiple physical machines, which run a Proxmox VE cluster. Through my homelab, I learned how to operate a production Kubernetes cluster⁷ -- I consider it production since I have multiple users relying on it -- and reliably and securely host applications on it. My long-term goal is to have a nice server rack containing all of my networking, storage and computing needs.

contact

devls@MacBook-Pro-18-3 ~ 
❯ cat contact.json
{ 
  "email": "info@devls.de", 
  "bluesky": "@devls.de"
}

devls@MacBook-Pro-18-3 ~ 
❯ █

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