Michael Reber
Co-Founder Lead Engineer at Swissmakers GmbH
Greater Bern Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Reber is a Co-Founder and Lead Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and hardening Linux- and cloud-native platforms across Swiss enterprises and startups. He combines deep system engineering skills (RHEL, OpenShift, Docker) with offensive security expertise as a pentester and ethical hacker, enabling practical, secure platform designs. Michael has led engineering teams and apprentices, run Docker and OpenShift initiatives at The Swiss Post and SBB, and now drives product and technical strategy at Swissmakers. His background as a certified RHCSA and former military company trainer gives him a disciplined, methodical approach to automation, mentoring, and operations. Comfortable moving between low-level system hardening and high-level platform architecture, he’s known for turning curiosity about servers and electronics into durable, auditable infrastructure. Based in the Greater Bern Area, he blends entrepreneurial drive with a security-first engineering mindset.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
EFZ Syteminformatik, Information Technology, 5.8, EFZ Syteminformatik, Information Technology, 5.8 at Federal graduate Computer ScientistAusbildner von zwei Kompanien der schweizer Armee, Ausbildner von zwei Kompanien der schweizer Armee at Kader im Schweizer MilitärComputer- & Informationswissenschaften sowie 3dr level Support, 5.6, Computer- & Informationswissenschaften sowie 3dr level Support, 5.6 at Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule BernRHCSA - Redhat Certified System Administrator, RHCSA - Redhat Certified System Administrator at Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Github Skills (74)
plex10
htpc9
movie9
linux8
chat8
command-line-interface8
ipmi8
php8
server8
couchpotato8
dashboard7
windows7
vga7
command-line-tool7
convert7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
deepwather/plexWatchWeb-2.0
May 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 5 months
plex
deepwather/plexDash
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 4 commits, 3 pushes in 3 days
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