System Administrator & Software Engineer
Free Software Foundation Europe
Who am I?
I am a system administrator and programmer with a background in political science, philosophy and economics. I am fascinated by all the ways in which technology shapes how we think and interact with one another. I am concerned about technologies of social control and all the material as well as pyschosocial externalities that result from their global proliferation.
Currently, I work as a System Administrator for the FSFE. Together with a team of passionate free software enthusiasts, I am in charge of ensuring that our free and self-owned IT infrastructure works as reliably as possible. Feel free to check out my contributions there.
I love generating, organising and sharing knowledge. I don’t like if perfectionism gets in the way of publication, so regard this entire website as work-in-progress. Feel free to take a look at the public part of my extended brain.
To reach out, write me at hi@sehn.dev.
- Surveillance Studies
- Technology Policy
- Python Programming
- Linux Administration
- DevSecOps
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BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2017
University of Manchester, Erasmus Semester at SciencesPo in Paris
Professional Experience
Where I’ve worked
Improve and maintain the fully free and self-owned IT services for the entire organisation.
Coordinate and contribute to the development of the REUSE tool.
Coordinate and contribute to the development of the in-house Flask application used for donation processing and user data management
Deployed an auto-upgrade mechanism across all Debian hosts using Ansible.
Authored a suite of utilities (in Python) to analyse and maintain Docker deployments across a variety of host systems.
Wrote a dynamic inventory script (in Python) to streamline the internal usage of Ansible
Created and deployed a web-based data visualisation of survey responses.
Supported the GUARDINT project.
Analysed countries’ positions on allowing foreign companies to provide 5G infrastructure using both confidential and open sources.
Supported the streamlining of a variety of internal processes such as election management (ITU, ICAO and UPU), document creation and knowledge management.
Presented a paper at and supported the organisation of the project’s section at the 2019 ECPR Conference.
Participated in and contributed to the project’s workshop in Krakow hosting some of the leading scholars in the field of surveillance studies.
Supported Prof. Dr. Viola and Dr. Abel Reiberg in their ongoing research and the conception of a new project
Conceptualised and implemented a variety of budget and controlling overviews supported by Excel VBA both internally and for clients.
Acquired proficiency in the handling of classified information both on paper and within IT systems.