Christian Kaltenecker
Data Center Engineer
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Kaltenecker is a Data Center Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science from Saarland University and a decade of hands-on experience bridging research and operations. His PhD focused on performance and energy consumption engineering for configurable software systems, combining empirical measurement with statistical machine learning and published work in sampling and ML. He has managed IT services at scale—maintaining 10+ workstations and 50+ cluster nodes using Ansible and Slurm—while supervising multiple theses and supporting university lectures. Now at Computacenter, he applies his research-informed approach to real-world data center operations, blending automation, performance tuning, and reproducible measurement practices. Colleagues value his rare mix of academic rigor and practical sysadmin craftsmanship, including cross-institutional collaboration that strengthened his experimental and tooling expertise.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Magna Cumme Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Magna Cumme Laude at Universität des Saarlandes
Github Skills (24)
spl10
game-development9
nextcloud8
owncloud8
php8
javascript8
game-engine8
community-management7
godot7
open-source7
self-hosting7
federation7
file-sharing7
usability7
collaboration7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ChristianKaltenecker/Distance-Based_Data
Mar 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 release, 72 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
se-passau/Distance-Based_Data
Feb 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 14 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 6 months
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