Maximilian Wilhelm
SDN Team Lead at FrOSCon e.V.
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMaximilian Wilhelm is a seasoned SDN leader and Holistic Automation Architect with 16 years of experience designing and operating high-performance cloud and network infrastructure. Currently leading the SDN team at Hetzner Cloud and shaping its network architecture on the Architecture Board, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic vision to deliver low-latency, resilient, and testable network stacks. He co-founded Bio-Routing and contributes to LibreNMS, bringing deep protocol-level expertise in BGP/IS-IS/OSPF, BMP, and route reflection that informs pragmatic automation and observability. His background spans Cloudflare, SAP, and academic infrastructure roles, reflecting a rare mix of production-scale automation, open-source stewardship, and practical systems craftsmanship. Colleagues know him as a practical polyglot who builds durable solutions—often codifying best practices—and who enjoys turning complex routing theory into reliable, testable software.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker Computer Science, Diplom-Informatiker Computer Science at Paderborn University
German, English
Github Skills (11)
ldap10
php10
network-monitoring10
laravel-mix9
laravel9
database-management8
snmpd8
snmp8
rrd7
monitoring6
apache6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
librenms/librenms
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 24 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian implemented a new HTTP Authentication/LDAP Authorization module for the LibreNMS network monitoring system. This involved integrating with existing authentication modules, handling user authorization based on LDAP group memberships, and caching LDAP information within PHP sessions to improve performance. They also refactored and improved the port association and RRD file naming conventions. These changes allowed for more stable interface mapping and added features for managing ports through a CLI tool and web interface.
network-monitoringnetworkmonitoringphprrd
FreifunkHochstift/ffho-salt-public
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
Salt-Orchestrated OpenSource based Software-Defined-Freifunk-Infrastructre-Network configuration :) Mirrored from internal git
Contributions:1 review, 615 commits, 10 PRs in 6 years 8 months
network-configurationsaltstackfreifunksdnpython
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