Florian Benscheidt
Twitch & Discord Admin Moderator
Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Benscheidt is a Linux-first DevOps and cloud automation engineer with nine years of experience building AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Python-based tooling. He contributes to open-source projects like Salt (AWS modules), tldr-pages, and maintains AUR packages for Arch Linux, reflecting a strong commitment to community-driven tooling. Florian blends a creative background in video production with pragmatic engineering—he moved from freelance video editing into automating infrastructure to avoid repetitive work and focus on higher-value problems. Comfortable across SaltStack, GitLab CI, Flask and serverless patterns, he has delivered secure cloud solutions for clients including Saab and KPN under NDAs. A mechanical keyboard and 3D-printing enthusiast, he brings meticulousness and a tinkerer’s mindset to systems design and automation. Living in Gelderland, he pairs hands-on ops skills with a long-term appetite for automating “all-the-things.”
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Broadcasting, Bachelor of Science, Broadcasting at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (99)
python10
windows10
firmware10
low-level10
bash10
qmk10
automation10
infrastructure10
arm10
remote-execution10
qt10
linux10
browser10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Waples/tldr
Mar 2021 - Jan 2025
📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
Contributions:97 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 10 months
consolelinuxbashterminalcommand-line
Waples/podcrow
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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