Thomas Merkel
Server Ninja at SkyLime GmbH
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Merkel is a Server Ninja with over 21 years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and securing Unix and Linux infrastructures from Solaris and illumos to BSD and modern Linux clouds. Based in Berlin, he leads infrastructure and operations at SkyLime GmbH while running freelance work focused on Linux security, OpenBSD platform engineering, and email/storage automation. He combines deep systems-level expertise (C/C++, Python, Shell, Node.js) with practical cloud operation skills—running SmartOS-based managed services, VPN/IPv6 networks, DNS and database hosting. Thomas is experienced in compliance-driven security (NIST/CIS, SELinux) and has built internal tooling for billing, abuse monitoring, and domain analytics using open-source Python approaches. Comfortable both as a consultant and operator, he mentors teams and migrates legacy infrastructure to robust, up-to-date services. An understated strength is his long track record of migrating and instrumenting BSD-based production systems for measurable operational improvements.
22 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Hochschule Ravensburg-WeingartenInformation- and communication technology, IT specialist, Information- and communication technology, IT specialist at Elektronikschule Tettnang
German, English
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
vagrant10
window-manager10
dwm10
mysql10
codeigniter10
kde-plasma10
synchronize10
shell10
ide10
smartos10
netbsd10
vscode10
dbus10
pkgsrc10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
skylime/mi-core-sogo
Jan 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 releases, 41 pushes, 8 tags in 7 years 10 months
drscream/dot-mutt
Jul 2011 - Dec 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 22 pushes in 6 years 6 months
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