👋 Hi, I'm Lars!

A Senior Engineer working at the intersection of software, infrastructure, and reliability.

By day, I design and build observability platforms with Kubernetes, Ansible/Terraform, and Elastic. By night, I work on my Side Projects like PostCapture, ShowUpInAI, and BacklinkDog, where I explore how to turn engineering into products people love.

At my current role, I lead and deliver projects such as:

  • ✨Building a Kibana plugin and ingest scripting system to pseudonymize sensitive data at scale in Elasticsearch, with a flexible dot-notation API for nested fields.
  • 🔧Leading development of an Ansible Collection for Observability, including custom modules, automated testing, and a secure private Galaxy server for distributing the collection as a commercial product.
  • 📊Delivering and planning observability platforms for enterprise clients (Elastic, Kafka, Ansible).
  • 🖥️Designing and migrating a new Proxmox PVE production infrastructure, moving all workloads from Nutanix and saving the company 200k+ CHF over 3 years.
  • 🤝Acting as a technical mentor and cross-team problem solver, supporting teams across the company with complex engineering challenges.

Over the past decade I have:

  • ✨Built production systems in Python, TypeScript, Go, and React.
  • 🔧Automated infrastructure and operations with Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • 📊Designed and operated resilient observability and infrastructure stacks (Elastic/Kafka, Proxmox/KVM/VMware/Nutanix, Linux Engineering).
  • 🖥️Launched multiple indie SaaS projects to explore product building and scaling.