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Hi, my name is `Laura Kalb` and I (literally) do things on the internet.

## About me
I'm a network engineer, with a pretty mixed technical background. I started my career in software development, and then
moved on to be a sysadmin with main emphasis on linux environments. Afterwards, I was a mix of network engineer and site
reliability engineer. Now I'm responsible for the network infrastructure at a big datacenter provider. Currently I'm 
primarily working on network automation and our internal network infrastructure, and I'm playing a lot with the Golang
programming language =).


## Some nice stuff
A list of **tools**, **projects** and **fun stuff** that I already 
have worked on or that I want to work on in the future.

- [A list of awesome stuff curated by me!](/interesting-stuff)
- building my own IPAM with [Go](https://go.dev/). Source: [https://codeberg.org/lauralani/ipam](https://codeberg.org/lauralani/ipam)
- My own URL Shortener with Go. Source: [https://codeberg.org/lauralani/go-urlsh](https://codeberg.org/lauralani/go-urlsh)
- hosting my own mail with [mailcow](https://mailcow.email/)
- managing my public domains via Infrastructure as Code with Git, CI/CD and [OctoDNS](https://github.com/octodns/octodns)
- wrote my own [DynDNS-Tool](https://codeberg.org/lauralani/dyndns-script) in Python (supports Azure DNS and OVH)
- Automated my home WIFI with radius assigned VLANs via Freeradius and custom frontend (Will be open sourced soon)
- Some minor other projects:
    - [OVH ApiKey Manager](https://codeberg.org/lauralani/ovh-apikey-manager)


Notepad
My list of awesome technologies I want to implement soon:
- [Garage](https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/): A S3-compatible storage (for selfhosting static websites like this one)

## Books
I always loved to read as many books as I can. So here I'm listing the books I've read since I
started this webpage, including a rating and short description. These are the last few books 
I've rated:

Coming Soon

## Contact
Some ways to contact me:
- Fediverse: {{< fediverse-handle >}}
- Email: mail (at) (this domain) [(PGP and S/MIME Keys)](/encryption/)
- matrix: [@lauralani:lila.network](https://matrix.to/#/@lauralani:lila.network)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-kalb/)
- [XING](https://www.xing.com/profile/Laura_Kalb3/)

## About this website
This website is [open source](https://code.lila.network/lauralani/personal-website). It's an entirely static site generated with [{{< hugo-version >}}](https://gohugo.io/) and hosted with Netlify.  
  
This page makes due without any cookies, javascript frameworks, tracking and databases in the effort to make the web quick and usable again :)  
  
This page was last updated at {{< last-updated >}}  
  
Copyright (c) Laura Kalb 2021-{{< copyright-date >}}

[Impressum und Datenschutzerklärung](/impressum.html)