Philipp Born
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at IONOS
Germany
Summary
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RockstarPhilipp Born is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient Linux-based infrastructure across hosting, telecom and enterprise environments. He combines deep sysadmin roots—configuration management, virtualization and central logging—with modern DevOps practices like Ansible, Jenkins, containerized ELK stacks and Kubernetes proofs-of-concept. Colleagues know him as a dependable problem solver and third-level support specialist who also mentors and advises teams on operational reliability. An active contributor to open source, he improved network handling for the popular Screenly Anthias digital signage project by adding robust IPv6 gateway detection. Based in Germany, he balances technical rigor with curiosity—working toward a marathon goal while quietly owning reliability for customer-facing services.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (5)
iot10
network-configuration10
ipv610
python10
digital-signage9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Screenly/Anthias
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
The world's most popular open source digital signage project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Philipp focused on improving the network configuration of the digital signage project. Their contributions involved modifying the `get_node_ip` function within `lib/utils.py` to handle IPv6-only setups by using `netifaces` to determine the default gateway, replacing `netstat` and `grep`. They also optimized code by preferring IPv6 over IPv4 when both are available. Additionally, the user renamed a variable for clarity.
raspberry-pipythonsignagedigital-signageiot
p-rintz/nixpkgs
Aug 2023 - Apr 2024
Nix Packages collection & NixOS
Contributions:29 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
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