Julius Rickert
Systems Engineer at ekmor
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJulius Rickert is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently working on load balancers and certificate automation at Hetzner Cloud in Aachen. He combines a strong academic foundation from RWTH Aachen and studies in cloud and data science with hands-on operational expertise gained as a co-founder and through internships in networking and marketing. Julius is an active open-source contributor—his work improving the hostingde provider in the well-known dnscontrol project added SSHFP support, robust retry logic, and bug fixes for DNS record handling, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability. Comfortable across infrastructure as code and production systems, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and methodical engineering to large-scale service reliability. An understated strength is his repeated role as a teaching assistant, signaling an ability to explain complex networking concepts clearly to others.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 (M2), Cloud Computing, Master 2 (M2), Cloud Computing at University of Lille 1 Sciences and TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at RWTH Aachen UniversityMaster 1 (M1), Data Science, Master 1 (M1), Data Science at Centrale Lille
French
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DNSControl/dnscontrol
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Infrastructure as code for DNS!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Julius made significant contributions to the `hostingde` provider integration. They implemented features for the provider, including SSHFP capability and paging for records. They refactored and fixed code related to TXT and PTR records, improving the handling of string quoting and resolving bugs. The user also introduced exponential back-off retry mechanisms for the hostingde provider, increasing the stability of the integration.
dnsinfrastructure-as-codegodnscontrol
juliusrickert/dnscontrol
Feb 2021 - Oct 2023
Synchronize your DNS to multiple providers from a simple DSL
Contributions:34 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 8 months
dnsdslproviderssynchronizedns-record
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