Christian Birkenbeul
Senior Manager IT-Infrastruktur at TIM AG
Ockenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Birkenbeul is a Senior Manager IT-Infrastruktur based in Ockenheim, Germany, with over 11 years of hands-on experience across Windows, Linux and macOS environments. He has progressed from frontline 1st/2nd level support to leading infrastructure and monitoring teams in MSP settings and now manages IT infrastructure at TIM AG. A pragmatic DevOps enthusiast, he maintains a popular Docker homelab repo where he iteratively improved automation and presentation of compose-file overviews via custom bash tooling. Known for continuous learning and knowledge sharing—he also creates YouTube content—Christian blends operational rigor with a passion for teaching and practical automation. Colleagues value him for turning complex server and monitoring challenges into clear, maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
IT System Elektroniker, IT System Elektroniker at U. S. Computer
German, English
Github Skills (19)
docker10
scripting10
bash10
docker-compose10
dockers10
vlab10
script10
sh10
shell10
yaml9
traefik6
nextcloud5
plex5
backstack5
guacamole5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cbirkenbeul/docker-homelab
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Docker Compose Dateien für Homelabs
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:549 commits, 319 PRs, 462 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on automating and refining the generation of a compose files overview within the repository. Their work involved modifying a bash script (`hack/gen-compose-summary.sh`) to display charts, descriptions, and links related to the Docker Compose files. They introduced changes to improve the presentation and structure of the overview, including testing and correcting the formatting of the links. The user made numerous iterative adjustments to get the desired layout and data extraction correct.
minifluxdocker-imageguacamolefreshresscompose
cbirkenbeul/k3s-cluster
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
My small k8s@home Cluster with k3s.
Contributions:24 PRs, 269 pushes, 2 issues in 27 days
k3dhelmhome-clusterk8s-homerancher
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