Studied Physics with main focus image processing in Heidelberg from 1990 until 1997, followed by a PhD in Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University in 2000. Worked as sysadmin during the studies, mainly in the Mathematical Institute in Heidelberg. Started at SUSE doing architecture maintenance on Mainframe. Now working as Teamlead at SUSE Labs for storage and network.
Principal contact point for storage related issues on SLES.

Linux addict since the earliest days (0.95); various patches to get Linux up and running. Main points of interest are storage, (i)SCSI, FC/FCoE, and multipathing. And NVMe, but only if it’s over Fabrics. Plus S/390, naturally.

I’m active on the Linux SCSI mailing list, reviewing patches and dusting out murky corners in the SCSI stack.