Julius Volz

Professional Interests

• Building and Operating Large Systems
• Cluster Scheduling Systems
• Monitoring Systems
• Linux Kernel Development
• Web Applications

Professional Experience

• Self-employed, freelancer (2016 - current)
• SoundCloud (2012 - 2015)
  Platforms Engineer - Employed
• Google (2009 - 2012)
  Site Reliability Engineer - Employed
• Google (2008)
  Systems Operations - Intern
• studiVZ Ltd. (2007-2008)
  Software Engineering - Intern
• Chemnitz University of Technology (2006-2007)
  CHIC High Performance Linux Cluster - Research Assistant
• COPROZESSOR (2006-2007)
  Systems Operations, Software Engineering - Employed

Public/Free Software Projects

• Prometheus - An open-source monitoring system and time series database.

  Co-founder and actively responsible for many Prometheus core components.

• Silk - A link discovery framework for the Web of Data (Python)

• Zeugnis Online - An online report card management application (Python, Javascript)

• MindBasket - An online note taking application (Perl, Javascript)

• MicroWheels - A 2D top-down car racing game (C++)

Contributions to Existing Projects

• Linux kernel - IPv6 support for the IPVS load balancing module (C)
• ldirectord - Various patches for monitoring, health checks, etc. (Perl)

Volunteer Work

• Whiteboard Talks for Tech Beginners (2013-present)
  Planning and giving weekly talks
• Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (2004-2007)
  Livestreaming / Demo / Organisation
• Radio UNiCC e.V. (2004-2007)
  Engineering - Unix/Linux Server Administrator

Education

• Freie Universität Berlin (diploma thesis, 2008/2009)
• Chemnitz University of Technology (2003-2009)
  Studies of Applied Computer Science
  Specialization: Networking and Distributed Systems
  Degree: Diplom-Informatiker

Publications

• Julius Volz, Christian Bizer, Martin Gaedke, Georgi Kobilarov: Discovering and Maintaining Links on the Web of Data.
  8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), 2009
• Julius Volz, Christian Bizer, Martin Gaedke, Georgi Kobilarov: Silk - A Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data.
  2nd Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW2009) at WWW2009, 2009

Other Projects

• Co-host of German Podcast This Day and Age

Contact

• Bluesky
• Mastodon
• Twitter