Christian Hofstede-Kuhn
Building infrastructure that doesn’t break at 3 AM.
Red Hat Cloud Consultant with 20+ years of enterprise IT experience. FreeBSD specialist, automation enthusiast, and IPv6 advocate. Also known as Larvitz on the internet. Based in Limburgerhof, Germany.
Skills & Focus Areas
Red Hat
RHEL, Ansible, FreeIPA/IdM, Satellite, Keycloak
Linux
Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, system tuning
FreeBSD
Jails, ZFS, FRRouting, pf, bhyve
DevOps
OpenShift, Podman, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code
Networking & Security
IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, VPN, PKI, hardening
System Architecture
High availability, redundancy, capacity planning
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, replication
Web Servers
Nginx, Apache, reverse proxies, TLS
Certifications
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