Alex Kretzschmar
Login to view DISC.Alex is the Lead Developer Advocate at Tailscale, with a strong background in cloud architecture from his time at Red Hat. He holds multiple certifications, including Red Hat Certified Engineer, and earned a Master of Science with Distinction from the University of East Anglia. People often describe him as a proactive and effective engineer.
Outside of work, Alex is a prominent figure in the open-source and self-hosting communities. He co-hosted the popular "Self-Hosted" podcast for nearly six years, sharing his extensive knowledge on managing personal servers, smart devices, and securing data. He is also the founder of linuxserver. io, a project providing container images.
Alex has a personal project called "Perfect Media Server, " a comprehensive guide for others to build their own home servers, born from his own journey of data loss and discovery.
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