About Me

I’m a self-taught systems engineer, building tools and infrastructure that solve real problems — starting with my own, then sharing them in case they help others.

Technical Focus

Building and operating systems around:

Infrastructure / orchestration

• Containers (Docker, Podman, Incus/LXD)
• Proxmox automation
• Kubernetes & SaltStack
• Distributed service patterns & RPC systems (Go)

Monitoring & operations

• CheckMK tooling & integrations
• Observability pipelines
• Self-hosted architectures

Developer tooling

• CLI tools and automation utilities
• Cross-platform desktop & mobile clients (Flutter)
• Language-agnostic bundling tools (Lua → Rust)

Languages

• Go (primary)
• Python (automation, APIs)
• Dart/Flutter (clients/UI)
• Rust (tooling / learning)

Projects

• OctoCompose
  orchestration toolkit for Docker / Podman / nerdctl
• pmxc
  Proxmox VE automation client (Python)
• letscheck
  CheckMK clients for desktop & mobile (Flutter)
• go-orb
  distributed systems experiment

Past highlights:

• LXD @ Canonical
  storage driver architecture (BTRFS / LVM), race condition fixes, 35+ commits in production

Contact

• GitHub: @jochumdev
• Email: rene@jochum.dev