About & Contact

About & Contact

About me

Thorsten Bäcker
Thorsten Bäcker

I am a husband and father of a 6 year old boy.

At work I am Head of System Administration

When it comes to the technical things to do this means primarily Linux system administration (Debian, Ubuntu), some Windows stuff, the underlying infrastructure (networks, cluster/cloud computing), InfoSec (ISMS, PCI DSS) and automation (Ansible).

System administration is something I have been doing since 1993. I did all the usual helpdesk and support things no matter if it were face to face, via remote access or while traveling all over Germany and Switzerland. For some time I was also involved in database application programming. Besides the sysadmin stuff and from around 1996 on I even did this cool website builder/designer/programmer stuff with HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL. But I eventually let these “distractions” behind me and came back to genuine system administration around 2000. I built sites from scratch and installed, upgraded or migrated all sorts of systems.

Nowadays I deal quite a lot with (change) management topics and I am a certified OKR Master.

Besides all the stuff I do in my dayjob I am a presbyter in my parish, the “Protestantische Kirchengemeinde Herschweiler-Pettersheim”.

Contact me

t.baecker@tobanet.de