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Kobe Franssen

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About me

Hey I'm Kobe, working at Systems since fall semester 2023 and took a System Administrator position since summer 2024.
I'm a graduate student currently taking my Phd in Computer Science.

Systems Accomplishments

  • set up and maintain(ed) the discord bot (ranni)
  • organized and redesigned internal ansible structure
  • redesigned the wiki (this site)
  • revamped syshome (v2, idk what v we on now)
  • Contributor to RelayPoint (content on tvs across CS ODU buildings)
  • ipam and uptime monitoring (checkout status.cs )
  • kubernetes fleet captain
  • Victoria metrics logging and s3 backup
  • OpenHouse, forms website you can use to apply apply.cs
  • Git Pipelines
  • GPPortal, to download Global Protect vpn.cs
  • Snipe-IT inventory management

Fun Fact

I'm from Belgium, Europe but have lived in France and with that have learnt French, Flemish (Dutch), English and ~German.
I share my house with 3 cats (Azrael , Sam, Mila) which you can see here:

Azrael Sam Mila

Homelab

  • 3 RKE2 nodes controlled via rancher
  • jellyfin and jelyseer media stack
  • vllm and litellm
  • ceph using RookFS and RookNFS
  • Gitea
  • davis for web/cal/card-dav
  • garage s3 (with custom operator )
  • headscale, gluetun, shadowsocks + socks5
  • keycloak + lldap

most of my manifests can be found on my git

Interests

  • Coding
  • Cars
  • Computer Hardware
  • Climbing
  • Video Games
  • Cats

Contact