Summary
Falk Stern is a Technical Lead based in Hamburg with over a decade of hands-on experience evolving from a Linux system administrator into a leader of global infrastructure and network operations. He combines deep packet-level troubleshooting skills and source-code literacy with pragmatic automation—favoring Perl and Bash, git, and a move from Chef/SaltStack to Ansible—to keep large-scale datacenter networks reliable and repeatable. Falk has led infrastructure teams at companies from XING and Goodgame Studios to Northern Data and Taiga Cloud, delivering DevOps workflows for network operations and operationalizing complex WAN/DC environments. Comfortable speaking at open-source and community events, he brings both technical depth and an ability to communicate complex systems to diverse audiences. An uncommon strength is his long-term familiarity with Unix/Linux since 1996, which informs his methodical, multi-layer approach to debugging and architecture.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French