{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"Philipp Lehmann","label":"Infrastructure Engineer","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/111761181?v=4","email":"philipp.lehmann@gruppe.ai","url":"https://philipptheserver.com","summary":"Infrastructure engineer running container-heavy production systems since 2022, CTO at Nerd Force1 UG (AI-Gruppe) since September 2026. I designed and operate a Docker cluster, a Kubernetes cluster, a Ceph storage cluster and the internal network behind them, plus the full-stack operations platform that replaced most of the company's external tooling. Studying IT Security / Information Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum.","location":{"city":"Bochum","region":"North Rhine-Westphalia","countryCode":"DE"},"profiles":[{"network":"GitHub","username":"PhilippTheServer","url":"https://github.com/PhilippTheServer"},{"network":"ORCID","username":"0009-0002-3922-2471","url":"https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3922-2471"},{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"philipp-lehmann-17995521b","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipp-lehmann-17995521b/"}]},"work":[{"name":"Nerd Force1 UG","location":"Bochum, Germany","url":"https://nerd-force1.de","position":"CTO","startDate":"2026-09-06","summary":"Technical leadership for the company's engineering and infrastructure. Part of the AI-Gruppe umbrella brand."},{"name":"Nerd Force1 UG","location":"Bochum, Germany","url":"https://nerd-force1.de","position":"Head of Administration and IT","startDate":"2022-03-01","endDate":"2026-09-06","summary":"Owned the company's production infrastructure end to end — architecture, deployment and day-2 operations — and led the internal tooling that runs on it.","highlights":["Designed and operate a Docker standalone cluster carrying the bulk of company workloads","Built a Kubernetes cluster for orchestrated workloads, deployed with ArgoCD","Run a Ceph cluster for distributed storage across bare metal","Designed the internal network: a NetBird overlay mesh and Bind9 DNS","Wrote the whole server estate as Ansible, so hosts are reproducible rather than hand-tuned","Designed and maintain the internal operations platform that replaced several external SaaS tools"]},{"name":"open Skunkforce e.V.","location":"Bochum, Germany","url":"https://github.com/skunkforce","position":"Executive Office","startDate":"2025-01-01","summary":"Lead a small developer team and coordinate the association's open-source work. Co-organise the emBO++ and KiCon conferences held in Bochum each year."}],"education":[{"institution":"Ruhr University Bochum","url":"https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/","area":"IT Security / Information Engineering","studyType":"Bachelor of Science","startDate":"2021-10-01","score":"","courses":["Implementation of cryptographic schemes","Software security","Operating systems","System theory","Electrical engineering"]}],"skills":[{"name":"Container orchestration","level":"Advanced","keywords":["Docker","Kubernetes","Portainer","Harbor"]},{"name":"Infrastructure as code","level":"Advanced","keywords":["Ansible","Terraform","Kubernetes manifests","Kustomize"]},{"name":"CI/CD","keywords":["GitHub Actions","ArgoCD","Jenkins"]},{"name":"Storage and networking","keywords":["Ceph","NetBird","Bind9","HashiCorp Vault"]},{"name":"Programming","keywords":["Python","Go","C","C++","TypeScript","Bash"]},{"name":"Application stack","keywords":["FastAPI","Celery","Angular","MySQL","InfluxDB"]},{"name":"Systems","keywords":["Linux","Debian","Arch Linux"]}],"languages":[{"language":"German","fluency":"Native speaker"},{"language":"English","fluency":"Professional working proficiency"}],"projects":[{"name":"Internal Operations Platform","description":"Full-stack platform that centralised company operations and replaced several external tools: internal messenger, time tracking, ticket system, accounting, Docker registry frontend, DNS management, VPN management and hosting orchestration. Angular frontend, FastAPI backend, MySQL and InfluxDB, Celery workers.","keywords":["Angular","FastAPI","Celery","MySQL","InfluxDB"],"roles":["Architect","Maintainer"]},{"name":"atlas","description":"Self-hosted model-serving stack — an OpenAI-compatible API, repeatable capability benchmarks for the locally served models, and a metrics poller.","url":"https://github.com/PhilippTheServer/atlas","keywords":["Python","FastAPI","llama-swap","uv"],"roles":["Author"]},{"name":"Server-Administration (Ansible)","description":"The company's server infrastructure as code.","url":"https://github.com/PhilippTheServer/Server-Administration_ansible","keywords":["Ansible","Linux"],"roles":["Author"]},{"name":"energy-data-api","description":"FastAPI service over the German SMARD electricity market data, with an Angular frontend.","url":"https://github.com/PhilippTheServer/energy-data-api","keywords":["Python","FastAPI","Angular"],"roles":["Author"]},{"name":"create_project_cli-tool","description":"CLI that scaffolds a FastAPI or Angular repository, for people too lazy to lay out the same directory tree twice.","url":"https://github.com/PhilippTheServer/create_project_cli-tool","keywords":["Python","CLI"],"roles":["Author"]}]}