https://github.com/cedi/cedi

https://github.com/cedi/cedi

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cedi/cedi
• Owner: cedi
• Created: 2020-08-12T13:39:04.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-21T20:30:09.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-09T23:58:52.747Z (about 1 year ago)
• Size: 18.6 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
## 👋 Cedric Kienzler — @cedi

Hi, I'm Cedric — but most people know me as *cedi*.

I'm a **Senior Site Reliability Engineering and Tech Lead** at [Microsoft Azure](https://github.com/microsoft), working on **distributed systems, chaos engineering, and platform resilience** at scale.  

If it's complex, distributed, and needs to stay up — I'm into it.

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### 🔧 What I Do

- Building reliable, large-scale systems with a focus on **resilience, SLOs, and automation**

- Leading teams and setting technical direction in high-stakes, high-scale environments

- Designing chaos experiments, improving release workflows, and modernizing infrastructure

- Evangelizing good SRE practices through talks, docs, and community work

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### 🛠️ Community & Chaos

I regularly help with infrastructure, planning, and logistics for events like the Chaos Communication Congress.

During the pandemic, I helped build:

- _jitsi.rocks_ - A collection of Jitsi Video Servers to stay connected

- _Open Infrastructure_ - A collective of people building desperately needed infrastructure for education institutions to keep classes going

- The Kubernetes stack powering the [rC3 - NOW HERE](https://rc3.world/2021/) virtual workd

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### 🧪 What I Tinker With

- Home lab with **Raspberry Pi K3s cluster**, **CEPH storage**, and a **Stratum 1 NTP/PTP time server**

- **Cluster API** managed cloud Kubernetes cluster running a full **Grafana LGTM Stack**

- Kernel recompilation just for fun (and for weird hardware drivers)

- Low-level **distributed systems** algorithms to explore gossip and consensus protocols

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### 📸 When Not Writing YAML

I’m also a hobbyist **analog photographer** with a small collection of 35mm and medium format cameras (Leica M6, Hasselblad 500 c/m, Canon A1).  

I develop film at home and have a tiny darkroom with a 35mm enlarger.

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### 💡 Things I Believe in

- Be excellent to each other 🤝

- Focus on fundamentals > chasing hype

- Alert on **symptoms**, not **vitals**

- Incidents are opportunities to learn

- There is no single "root cause"

- [How Complex Systems Fail](https://how.complexsystems.fail) is required reading  

- Your beloved system architecture exists mostly **in your head** and ~~behaves~~ fails differently than you'd expect. (See the [Above the line/below the line](https://snafucatchers.github.io/#2_3_The_above-the-line/below-the-line_framework) framework)

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### ☕ Let’s Connect

[![GitHub Specht Labs](https://img.shields.io/badge/SpechtLabs-008080?style=for-the-badge&logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/specht-labs)

[![Mastodon](https://img.shields.io/badge/Mastodon-6364FF?style=for-the-badge&logo=mastodon&logoColor=white)](http://hachyderm.io/@cedi)

[![Instagram](https://img.shields.io/badge/Instagram-E4405F?style=for-the-badge&logo=instagram&logoColor=white)](https://instagram.com/c3di1)

[![LinkedIn](https://img.shields.io/badge/LinkedIn-0077B5?style=for-the-badge&logoColor=white)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cekienzl)