Timotheus Bachinger-colling
Technical Lead at Checkmk
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTimotheus Bachinger-colling is a Technical Lead based in Munich with six years of professional experience building backend and DevOps solutions, currently driving development at Checkmk. He combines an electrical engineering background from TUM with hands-on expertise in embedded systems and medical-device software from roles at Hillrom and TRUMPF Medical Systems. At Checkmk he contributes to the flagship open-source monitoring project, improving networking monitoring, integrations (ntopng), and reliability around systemd sockets and CLI argument handling. He is comfortable across infrastructure, monitoring, and embedded Linux domains, frequently moving between low-level systems work and higher-level service integration. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he balances leadership with active coding and code contributions in a widely used monitoring platform. An often-overlooked strength is his history in audio and sensor projects, which informs a thoughtful approach to instrumentation and observability.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Elektrotechnik und Elektronik at Technische Universität München
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (10)
monitoring10
python10
networking10
linux9
rest-api9
docker8
systemd8
dockers8
snmp7
snmpd7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Checkmk/checkmk
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 944 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Timotheus primarily contributed to Checkmk's infrastructure and monitoring features, specifically related to networking monitoring and integration with external services. They worked on the ntopng integration by adding features like querying and caching the REST API version, enabling a toggle switch, and addressing configuration issues. The user also contributed to several fixes for networking performance, including improvements to the handling of systemd sockets, as well as the command line argument handling.
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TimotheusBachinger/checkmk
Nov 2019 - Jan 2025
Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring
Contributions:22 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 3 months
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