Paulibytes UG - Hamburg

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michaw(1) – “cultivated pragmatism since 1982”

paulibytes(1) – “the digital the better”

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michaw is a German-based IT consultant who focuses on security, infrastructure and system automation.

michaw.de website is a quick online representation intended for people searching the interweb.

paulibytes is a limited company I founded in 2019. Due to other projects this website is currently also the default company page.

mum loves to tell that I could start games on our Atari 800 w/ XC12 before writing my name
learing Basic programming from the age of 6
first html and js programming with 11
started exploring windows network security about the same age
contact with Linux starting with SuSE 4.3 in 1996
building fli4l low cost routers for German dial-in internet
custom kernels and Xfce in 1998 to match limitied resources of old AMD K6 II 350MHz
going through SlackWare, RedHat, TurboLinux, Mandrake, Gentoo and Debian
highly customized versions of WindowMaker, XFCE, later E17 wth XFree86, X11, Xorg and composite extensions
earyl 00’s it’s all debian and servers, my home server lena which was the Eierlegende Wollmilchsau or jack of all trades
interest for all different kind of servers (Web, Mail, VPN, VoIP, etc) of course on encrypted filesystems
started learning C in 2003 when my first SATA controller drivers had lots of problems in Linux kernel
exploring network security in bigger networks to overcome http limitations in university network
from there everything was straight forward, more and bigger servers, bigger networks, more encryption, etc

Besides having a broad general interest in technology and politics some key interest stick out.

Clustering
- Kubernetes, Mesos
- concepts of distributed services and databases
- Container as a Service solutions
HA
- with hearthbeat and DRBD in 2006
- k8s, scheduling, disruption budgets, automatic rescheduling and distributed microservices
Infrastructure and Networking
- IaaS, Infrastructure as Code
- Distributed storage solutions
- IP Routing, BGP
Server client architecure and software design patterns
Trade Finance
- Factoring
- Forfaiting
Payments
- European payment schemes
- SEPA
- EBICS

This site is written in Markdown, converted with hugo with some styles from ronn and some lazy .css additions

0.1 - 08/2016
- Initial layout and css styling
0.2 - 09/2017
- Updated some details
0.3 - 10/2017
- third time … nope, automated. make push is way nicer
0.4 - 02/2018
- added some hobbies .. yeah, suprise
0.5 - 06/2020
- Minor changes and company disclosure.
- Migrated from ronn to hugo

The texts and images on this site are not worth copying.

Disclosure according §5 TMG and §55/2 RStV:

Paulibytes UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Paulsenplatz 2 22767 Hamburg Germany

Represented by: Managing Director Michael Wilke mw-spam@paulibytes.de Commercial Register: HRB 157347 at Register Court Hamburg

VAT ID: DE325821677

No liability for external links from this website.

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