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Senior System Engineer

Karl Widmer

Karl ist unser Home-Lab Experte & frisch gebackener Papa.

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Experience
23 years of IT experience
Languages
DE · EN
  • 10 years of internal IT
  • 13 Years IT Service Provider
  • 9 years of blogging experience
Focus Cloud 1.94 Data Management 2.87 Virtualization 1.37
Vendors HPE VMware

Awards

  • VMware vExpert

Focus areas

  • VMware Cloud Foundation
  • VMware vSphere
  • Veeam Backup & Replication

Technologies

Hardware HPE Server (ML & DL), DELL Server (PowerEdge)
Virtualization VMware Cloud Foundation (vSphere, vSAN, Aria Suite)
Data Management Software Defined Storage solutions, Veeam Backup & Replication
Operating Systems Windows Client & Server, macOS, Linux
Public Cloud VMC on AWS, AWS

Certifications 22 · verified via Credly

VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Storage 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Storage - Architecture 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Storage - Implementation 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Storage - Support 2026
VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Support 2026
VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Architect 2025

A selection. 16 further active certifications are not shown.

Project history 6 periods

  1. 2026

    High-tech

    Senior System Engineer

    Customer projects. Engagement management 60%. Technical training.

  2. 2025

    High-tech

    Senior System Engineer

    Various support work. Project involvement. Security hardening. Technical training.

  3. 2024

    High-tech

    System Engineer

    Lifecycle management of the on-premises vSphere infrastructure. Migration of workloads to the public cloud. Building out further areas and services in the public cloud.

  4. 2023

    High-tech

    System Engineer

    Assisted in planning and implementing a public cloud for the company. Migration of workloads and data.

  5. 2022

    High-tech

    System Engineer

    Planning and execution of the vSphere 7 upgrade in both datacenters and edge locations worldwide.

  6. 2021

    Healthcare

    System Engineer

    IT-side merger of two clinics. Expansion of the existing server and storage infrastructure.

2011 - 2020

IT-side merger of companies. Building VMware vSphere server infrastructures. Various server projects for customers. Site networking. Data backup projects. Proactive services such as monitoring of critical systems. Datacenter migration projects. Sizing and building of cloud infrastructure. On-prem to cloud / cloud to cloud migrations.

Related services

service 0.53

Storage
service 0.47

Cloud
service 0.41

Virtualization