Mohammed Rahhal
System Engineer & DevOps|
📍 Zürich, Switzerland
Roles & collaboration
IT & security engineering · Zürich area · Open to hybrid or remote (EU/CH)
Full-time in enterprise IT today. Open to senior support, SOC-adjacent threat work, and infrastructure roles that fit this stack — plus scoped freelance or advisory by agreement.
Sec.01 // Identity
About Me
I'm a Swiss based tech enthusiast who speaks fluent Python, C++, and Rust with JavaScript on the side. Born in Bethlehem, thriving in Zürich, I've traded dental drills for debuggers and coffee shop shifts for cloud configurations. My specialty? Turning digital chaos into beautiful, humming systems while keeping the coffee flowing and the servers up. From options trading platforms to network migrations, I've got a knack for making complex tech play nice. When I'm not securing networks or wrangling containers, you'll find me day trading, hitting the gym, or hunting bugs like it's a sport. Because let's be real, if you can't laugh at a 3 AM server crash, you're in the wrong profession.
Skills
Sec.02 // Independence
What I replaced
I got tired of renting my own data. One service at a time, I moved off the platforms and rebuilt each one on hardware I own, running on Kubernetes I maintain myself.
- Gmail my own mail server + aliasing
- Spotify my own music streaming
- Google Drive my own encrypted storage
- WhatsApp my own messaging + voice/video
- 1Password my own password manager
- GitHub self-hosted Forgejo
- LinkedIn deleted, after 500 applications
This site, the mail server and the password manager run on Cloudflare under my own account; the rest run on my own hardware. I wrote every one of them. Nobody can discontinue them, change the terms, or start mining them — and when something breaks at 3am, it is mine to fix. Read how and why →
Read from the edge connection serving you right now — not stored, not logged. Full status →
Sec.03 // Service record
History
Sec.04 // Credentials
Certifications
Sec.06 // Field reports
Latest Posts
Sec.07 // Secure channel
Get in Touch
Recruiters and hiring managers: I am based in Switzerland, work across IT support and security-minded infrastructure, and respond fastest to roles that match the headline above. Share the requisition, team size, and stack — I will reply with fit and timing.
Everyone else: collaborations, tooling ideas, or a friendly hello are welcome too.
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