René Moser
Co-CEO at Moser Maschinen und Immobilien AG
Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRené Moser is a seasoned Linux and cloud automation engineer with 17 years of experience, currently running Moser Systems and serving on the board of Moser Maschinen und Immobilien AG in Switzerland. He co-authored the 2nd edition of O'Reilly’s "Ansible: Up and Running" and is an active contributor to core Ansible repositories, showcasing deep expertise in infrastructure-as-code and module development. His background spans building and operating IaaS and Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks at companies like SWISS TXT, Puzzle ITC and cloudscale.ch. René combines systems engineering with hands-on DevOps work—authoring Ansible modules, improving CloudStack integrations, and automating cloud operations across Debian/RedHat-based environments. He frequently blends developer practices (Python, Java) with platform engineering, and has a practical knack for making complex infrastructure repeatable and testable. Based in Solothurn, he also maintains smaller but impactful OSS contributions such as Homebrew formula fixes and tooling like a YAML linter.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree IT, Bachelor’s Degree IT at TEKO Schweizerische Fachschule AG
German, English, French
Github Skills (37)
git10
network-configuration10
cloud-computing10
package-management10
apidoc10
python10
debian10
cloud-infrastructure10
apache-cloudstack10
infrastructure-management10
java10
ruby10
homebrew10
javas10
automation10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible-modules-extras
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Ansible extra modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 575 PRs, 534 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:René primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Ansible modules, which suggests a focus on backend development. Their work involved setting default values for configuration options, improving parameter handling within the modules and fixing bugs, and implementing new features. The user also introduced new modules that managed different parts of the infrastructure.
ansible
ansible/ansible
Sep 2013 - Jun 2022
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 800 commits, 1302 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:René's commits primarily focused on modifying and refactoring CloudStack modules related to VPN gateways and instances, and managing network access control lists. They implemented and improved functionality related to VPC support, including handling IP address and network configurations. The contributions indicate a focus on integrating and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
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