Gerhard Sulzberger

SETE - Systems Engineering & Tech Execution

Something with Computers

Gerhard Sulzberger is a T-shaped engineer with deep expertise spanning from physical hardware to cloud-native platforms. His experience covers bare-metal provisioning at scale, virtualization, storage systems, and container platforms, all built on a foundation of open-source, Linux Foundation and FOSS projects. He implements cloud-native solutions, GitOps workflows and modern Observability solutions where practical, always prioritizing reliability, maintainability, and collaboration with engineering teams.

Gerhard is not an application developer. Instead, he focuses on understanding the needs of engineers and translating them into robust, scalable infrastructure and Observability. His career includes roles at Fronius (Principal Platform Engineer), Cabify (Principal SRE), R3 GIS (DevOps Tech Lead), and Runtastic (Infrastructure Engineer), where he built everything from Ceph storage clusters to zero-downtime migrations.

Beyond tech, Gerhard’s background is uniquely diverse. He spent over a decade as a certified arborist, runs a sustainable regenerative farm with draft horses, and holds certifications in electrical engineering and HVAC maintenance. Today, he volunteers at a non-profit school project, setting up infrastructure on Proxmox, Univention, Nextcloud, and Linux Mint using refurbished hardware for sustainable and souvereignty.

Fun fact: Gerhard still prefers plain Text E-mail over shiny bling bling HTML-Mails because ASCII is enough information.