cat welcome.md

# Veteran systems engineer, fueled by strong coffee and stronger opinions by day.

# Enjoyer of Neovim, gaming, BBQ, cooking, and fountain pens — explorer by night.

thorsten ~> whoami && uname -a && locale

thorsten

Senior Systems Developer @ Sweden, Europe, Terra
Pythonist • Neovim addict • Cloud Native nerd • Sysadmin at heart

Languages: Swedish (native), English, German

thorsten ~> curl rhau.se/work

> Industry experience: 30+ years in ICT, IT, and Telecom

> Focus areas: Cloud-native transformation, Linux,
Observability, and Service Assurance

> Leadership: Coaching, Delegation, Situational Awareness

thorsten ~> ls ~/skills

automation
cloud-native
devops
leadership
lua
networking
observability
python
service assurance
shell script
systems engineering

thorsten ~> cat ~/config/neovim.lua

Editor = Neovim + Lua (Lazy.nvim)

Config = github.com/ThorstenRhau/neovim

thorsten ~> cat ~/config/dotfiles.ini

Description = Personal configuration files

Repo = github.com/ThorstenRhau/dotfiles

thorsten ~> grep --exclude-dir='.git' -R "fun" ~/home

/home/automation.sh → smart home, scripts & sensors, monitoring
/home/baking.txt    → kneading & feeding dough, bread, cookies
/home/books.tex     → space opera, adventure, thriller, biography
/home/bbq.md        → fire, smoke, meat & patience, relaxation
/home/beer.json     → meeting, tasting, stout, porter, IPA, sour
/home/pens.org      → fountain pens, ink, stationary, handwriting
/home/games.c       → role playing, dungeon crawling, building
/home/movies.csv    → watching everything from Kurosawa to Kubrick
/home/sharpening.sh → knives, razors, japanese water stones
/home/wine.yml      → bold reds, shared stories, open bottles

thorsten ~> cat links.list

GitHub
LinkedIn
dotfiles # (interactive browser)
# Click to reveal email
echo "dGhvcnN0ZUByaGF1LnNl" | base64 -d

thorsten ~> ping -c 5 localhost && ./run_diagnostic # Looks innocent?

thorsten ~> chrome://dino # Hmm...