Hey, thanks for visiting my blog!

My name is Markus and I’m a PhD student at the University of Vienna doing all kinds of fun technical things at work and at home!

At work, I’m researching in the area of active network measurements. I found my niche in the routing plane, where I try to find anomalies. This lead me to routing loops, which impact the reachability of certain IP addresses and are mostly manual misconfigurations. Further, I am responsible for the infrastructure of our research group. Which allows me to play around with all kinds of fun hardware. For example, I manage our measurement infrastructure, so our research group can do measurements without any issues.

I try to mostly separate work from home, but my interests are so close to work, so that is somewhat hard. I love to read up on latest industry trends via ServeTheHome and keep myself up-to date this way. Storage servers and especially the file system ZFS are fascinating to me. I’m running all my devices on ZFS because I love the feature set and options it gives me.

Over the years, I also accumulated a rather large homelab with 20 something VMs. I also helped out building the infrastructure and backup plan for a small company, where we played around with connecting multiple sites using wireguard for off-site backups. There are so many nice projects I played around with, maybe I will find some time to write about them.

Other than the technical stuff, I enjoy all sorts of sports. I regularly go to a climbing gym, am an avid cyclist, like jogging during the day and enjoy a hike every now and then.

This blog and repositories on Codeberg and GitHub will be my outlet to give back to the community after I’ve found so many useful resources over the last years. I realized that keeping all my stuff and knowledge to myself doesn’t help anyone, not even myself, so I want to open a lot of my projects to anyone who cares :)

Let’s see where this journey takes me, thanks for being a part of it!

Last modified on 2024-10-30