Marian Arlt
Systemadministrator
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarian Arlt is a Berlin-based system administrator with a decade of hands-on experience bridging Linux/Unix operations, backend development, and visual design. He blends formal training in system integration and graphic design with practical work as a self-employed designer, bringing a user-centered eye to infrastructure and automation. An active open-source contributor, Marian has improved internationalization for the popular flatpickr datepicker and contributed backend fixes to the FFXI server emulator, demonstrating both localization finesse and Lua/database debugging skills. Passionate about permaculture and bioconstruction, he applies systems-thinking from sustainable design to resilient IT operations. Equally comfortable editing language files as tuning server-side Lua, he advocates Unix ideology and open source while adding cross-disciplinary creativity to technical teams.
10 years of coding experience
Certificated, Graphic Design, Certificated, Graphic Design at Lette Verein BerlinIT for Networking and System Administration, IT for Networking and System Administration at BBQ - Baumann Bildung und Qualifizierung
German, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,352reputation
101kreached
9answers
11questions
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
translation10
scripting10
internationalization10
lua10
localization10
datepicker10
emulation10
server10
server-side10
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
project-topaz/topaz
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Server emulator for FFXI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 70 commits, 33 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Marian primarily contributed to the server-side logic of the Final Fantasy XI emulator. Their commits include modifying Lua scripts to fix quest triggers, correct time-based events, and optimize function calls. They also made changes to the database schema, specifically regarding mob pool configurations. Moreover, the user updated the project's dependencies by requiring a new utility file, adding functionality to complete the quest with item.
emulatorffxiserver-emulator
flatpickr/flatpickr
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
lightweight, powerful javascript datetimepicker with no dependencies
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Marian primarily focused on adding and updating localizations for the flatpickr library. They implemented language-specific translations for weekdays and months, creating and modifying language files (e.g., German, Spanish, French, Russian, Bangla, Portuguese, Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese) to support a wider range of users. This work improved the user experience by enabling date and time selection in multiple languages.
datetimedatepickerdependenciescalendartimeago
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