Kim Brose
Systems Architect at Nordeck IT + Consulting GmbH
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolKim Brose is a Systems Architect and seasoned software engineer with 11 years’ experience focused on open source and the Matrix.org ecosystem, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Nordeck IT + Consulting in Aachen. Skilled across backend and frontend development, DevOps automation, and research-grade video and point-cloud coding, Kim bridges academic research from RWTH Aachen with practical production deployments. He contributes to prominent community tooling—improving Matrix deployments with Ansible/Docker, Prometheus monitoring and bridge automation—and advises product and technical decisions across teams. Interested in privacy, self-hosting, Python and Rust, Kim combines systems-level rigor with a knack for pragmatic automation and measurable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
English, German, French, Dutch
Github Skills (14)
ansible-galaxy10
docker10
nginx10
prometheus10
dockers10
ansible10
automation9
automations9
docker-compose9
systemd9
matrix-org8
yaml8
ansible-role8
self-hosting7
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
Sep 2021 - May 2022
🐳 Matrix (An open network for secure, decentralized communication) server setup using Ansible and Docker
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 79 commits, 36 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily contributed to the infrastructure and automation aspects of the repository, focusing on integrating and configuring services using Ansible and Docker. Their work involved setting up metrics monitoring for the Matrix Synapse worker using Prometheus and Nginx, including configurations for basic authentication. They also implemented and refined the Matrix Hookshot bridge by setting up a systemd service and configuring the container. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to indentations and file paths, optimizing the overall deployment.
securejitsiself-hostingansiblecommunication
HarHarLinks/wireguard-rofi-waybar
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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