Jochen Schäfer
Support Engineer at SUSE
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJochen Schäfer is a seasoned support engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in SUSE/Linux ecosystems, virtualization (KVM, XEN), and automation tooling such as Terraform, Salt and SUSE Manager. Based in Düsseldorf, he has supported and implemented large-scale configuration, high-availability and cloud projects at SUSE and its predecessors since 1999, combining deep OS-level troubleshooting with scripting in Bash and Python. He brings practical service delivery expertise from consulting roles through to long-term product support, often bridging gaps between operations and engineering. Jochen also leverages lightweight frameworks like Flask and Streamlit for internal tooling and proof-of-concept automation, reflecting a hands-on approach to improving efficiency. His background in rehabilitation and agrarian studies suggests a non-traditional path into IT, contributing a pragmatic, people-aware perspective to technical problem solving. Known for steady, practical execution, he thrives on making complex infrastructure reliable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
Diplom, Rehabilitation und Behindertensport, Diplom, Rehabilitation und Behindertensport at Deutsche Sporthochschule KölnVordiplom, Agrarwissenschaft, Vordiplom, Agrarwissenschaft at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
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Github Skills (26)
sar8
vega7
wakatime7
counter7
adobe-experience-manager7
vega-lite7
altair6
python6
probot6
pandas6
visualization6
matplotlib6
data-visualization5
suse5
github-issues4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jschaef/sarfile_analyzer_ng
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Fork of https://github.com/jschaef/sar_file_analyzer. Replaced Pandas with Polars for most dataframes
Contributions:2 releases, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
altairpandaspolars-dataframepython3sar
jschaef/sar_file_analyzer
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
graphical analyzis of sar files
Contributions:2 releases, 204 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years
graphicalsar
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