I’m a Cloud Engineer at SAP with strong interests in distributed systems (system design, Kubernetes & Docker), Linux internals (syscalls, namespaces & cgroups) and low-level networking (TCP/IP stack).
I am also interested in doing good better: together with three friends I co-founded the university group Effective Altruism Magdeburg where we promoted the ideas and philosophy behind effective altruism (EA). More precisely, my EA interests focus on longtermism ever since reading Yudkowsky’s sequences and Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence back in 2014. If you’re interested in finding out more about why the AI alignment problem matters now – and not only in in a few decades (or whenever we have enough compute to match the human brain) – there’s a great series by Holden Karnofsky titled “The most important century”. There’s also a great 80,000 hours podcast episode: #109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century.
The purpose of this blog is to serve as a reference for my future self. And hopefully, someone else will find something useful here.
Note: I moved my blog to another domain: https://andrei.poehlmann.dev/