Bernd Kuhlens portfolio
| 1973 | born in Viersen, Germany on August 27th |
| 1980-84 | primary school in Brüggen, Germany |
| 1984-93 | secondary school “Albertus Magnus Gymnasium” in Viersen, Germany. (“Abitur” final grade 1,4) |
| 1993-94 | community service in an old people’s home in Viersen, Germany (mandatory civil service at that time as alternative to going to the army.) |
| 1994-2000 | studies of meteorology at the university of Bonn, Germany. (final grade 1,0) |
| since 2000 | joined WetterOnline in Bonn, Germany as a C++ Programmer. Diverse certifications like LPI (Linux), CCNA (Cisco) and CSAA (AWS certified solutions architect associate) |
| 2003-2007 | studies of informatics at the university of Trier, Germany (“Fachhochschule”, final grade 1,1) |
| 2004 | switched from programming to system administration at WetterOnline |
| 2004-2018 | team lead of system administration at WetterOnline, sharing a 7×24 on call with my colleagues |
| since 2018 | switched my focus from (datacenter) system administration to cloud solutions engineering |
I am used to do many advanced trainings in my job to keep my knowledge and skills fit to current challenges, like learning kubernetes, docker, containers, git, gitlab, ansible, python etc.
Please also have a look at my past and future post.