Christoph Rauch
Projektleiter at Preh Group
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Rauch is a German project leader with 14 years of experience at Preh Group, having progressed from Werkzeugmechaniker to Projektleiter while owning end-to-end responsibility for pre-series, MES rollouts and product launches. He pairs formal training as a staatlich geprüfter Maschinenbautechniker (automation) with practical system-administration experience, enabling him to bridge factory-floor mechanics and IT-driven production systems. As a hands-on contributor to the popular open-source monitoring project Checkmk, he has implemented WSGI/Livestatus and REST-API improvements that strengthen observability in complex infrastructures. That combination of manufacturing process depth and backend monitoring work helps him translate operational needs into resilient, monitored solutions. His GitHub presence (often under the handle "smokey42") underscores a pragmatic, code-first approach to problem solving beyond his formal project role.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
staatl. gepr. Maschinenbautechniker, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, staatl. gepr. Maschinenbautechniker, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at DAA TechnikumWerkzeugmechaniker / Formentechnik, Werkzeugmechaniker / Formentechnik at Jakob-Preh-Schule Bad Neustadt a.d.Saale
Github Skills (6)
rest-api10
python10
openapi9
back-end-development9
openapi39
openapi-39
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Checkmk/checkmk
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 1167 commits, 9 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the Checkmk infrastructure and application monitoring system by implementing features for the Checkmk WSGI App and Livestatus functionality. Their work focused on adding debugging flags, building REST-API URLs from Livestatus queries, and integrating support for "Stats" headers. They also worked on improvements to existing modules, including changes to column management and handling for data display.
checkmksecurityin-classinfrastructuremonitoring
smokey42/dotfiles
Sep 2011 - Oct 2017
Contributions:143 commits, 10 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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