Born in the wonderful city Bensheim, Germany in 1989, Tobias grew up with a passion for IT very early. He successfully completed secondary school and started his IT career in 2006. During his apprenticeship to becoming an IHK certified System Engineer for System Integration he gained experience in various areas of IT, mainly Windows operating systems, Debian and VMware ESX(i). This was the first time he also got in touch with virtualization technology and at the same time he delivered a VMware ESX 3.5 project. Later, as part of his system engineer role, he focused on Symantec Altiris and Hyper-V implementations next to Windows Server administration for approximately 20,000 end users.
In 2015, Tobias decided to start his consulting career while focusing on Microsoft technologies, mainly Windows Server and Microsoft Azure. Azure as public cloud platform became number 1 priority until today. In various roles and positions such as consultant, advisor, solution architect and lastly enterprise architect, Tobias also gained a lot of experience in different kind of technologies and 3rd party products that can be integrated into Azure services.
Today, Tobias is mainly focusing on Azure Infra & Apps domain, incl. Kubernetes and Azure DevOps and Azure hybrid services, incl. Azure Arc and Azure File Sync among others. Tobias holds various certifications, mainly in Azure such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate and Azure Solutions Architect Expert.