meyer engineering

less fire, more meyer

I'm a passionate systems engineer with over 16 years of DevOps & infrastructure industry experience.

My favourite part on the job is being the Mary Poppins for a great dev team until every deployment is pitch perfect.

If you want to run a digital service and need help with anything from PDU to custom infrastructure as code tooling, let's talk.

Github • Codeberg • Mail.

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activities

FOSDEM
FOSDEM 2021 - Tool The Docs Devroom

Devroom Co-Organizer [schedule]

FOSDEM
FOSDEM 2019 - Tool The Docs Devroom

Devroom Co-Organizer [schedule]

talks & articles

2020 onwards

CfgMgmtCamp
If you look into the abyss long enough, bash will stare back.

CfgMgmtCamp, Ghent 2025. [conference link]

CfgMgmtCamp
Treating your infrastructure code like an artifact

CfgMgmtCamp, Ghent 2025. [conference link]

FOSDEM
Gruessaugust the functional test harness

FOSDEM 2025, OpenHardware DevRoom. [conference link]

FOSDEM
A PID control system based on the MOS 6502

FOSDEM 2025, OpenHardware DevRoom. [conference link]

heise academy
Untangling deployments: From branching scheme to free-standing artifact layer.

heise academy, Mastering Microservices, 2024. [conference link] • [slide deck]

bitkom
Cloud Cost Arbitrage.

Bitkom WG Multi-Cloud Governance, Nuremberg, 2024. Cancelled due to health issue.

AWS UG Bonn
Cloud Cost Optimization, The Stupid Man's Way.

AWS USer Group Bonn, 2024. [meetup link] • [slide deck]

2010 onwards

Smaato
AWS Infrastructure Onboarding.

Smaato internal, 2019. [nolink]

opensource.com
Building custom documentation workflows with Sphinx.

opensource.com, 2018. [link]

AWS UG Hamburg
Creating AMIs: Leveraging CodeBuild from Jenkins.

AWS User Group Hamburg, 2018. [evnent link]

akquinet
RPM Packaging.

akquinet internal, 2014. [nolink]

LUG Balista
POSIX Shell-Programming.

LUG Balista, 2013.

open source

Jenkins
Jenkins Core Plugins

Minor contributions around profile loading in Jenkins core plugins.

Zuul
Zuul CI

Building support for a BitBucket Server (Stash) backend into the Zuul CI system (Python).

Packer
Hashicorp Packer

Various bits and pieces around tagging on creation of EC2/EBS resources (Go).

contact

mailto: [email protected]

Mark Meyer
Heitmannstr. 73
22083 Hamburg
Germany