Daniel Scheckenbacher

AI Builder & Engineer

I build AI that takes work off engineers, not more data to read.

8+ years in senior and lead roles. 80 automations in production and one AI Ops Platform, built end to end.

  • Microsoft-certified: Azure · M365 Expert
  • DE · EN · ES (learning)
  • Lower Austria · CET
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Daniel in a firefighter turnout jacket, smilingDaniel in a black blazer, studio portraitWorkOff duty
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What I built

At work

  • AI Ops Platform

    AI-assisted IT service management for an internal IT team.

    I designed and built it end to end. An LLM analyses each case, a person approves every action, and privacy is part of the design.

  • 80 automations

    Daily IT operations, without heroics.

    I built 80 automations that keep daily IT operations running. Some use AI to sort incoming requests or summarise context for the engineer.

  • Onboarding agent

    New hires get answers from day one.

    An AI agent that guides new employees through onboarding and answers their questions. People step in where it matters.

  • IT second brain

    Team knowledge that outlasts holidays.

    A shared memory for the IT team, so knowledge stays when people go on holiday or leave.

On my own time

Projects I own and run myself, most of them in my homelab.

Zero trust at home

Proxmox with containers, a reverse proxy, local DNS and SSO in front of the services.

default drop
Problem
A homelab grows one service at a time, and each one handles login its own way.
What I did
I audited every service for real auth, put SSO via OIDC in front and set the firewall to default drop.
Result
One sign-on for the services and a default-drop firewall, rolled out with a dead-man switch.
  • Agents with memory

    Shared long-term memory across agent instances, plus an autonomous pentest platform in its own sandbox.

    ~4,900 memories
  • The full disk

    Media and backups shared one disk. A HEVC pipeline shrank 1.3 TB to 78 GB, and the backups ran again.

    from 94% to 16%
  • FWMS

    An app for the fire brigade with real users, CI/CD and a private registry.

    live
View it as an APIThe same profile as a developer reference, with one live endpoint.

Documented the way I think about systems: as an API. The base URL is illustrative and the responses are built from this page. POST /v1/agent is the one live endpoint.

Retrieve Daniel

GET/v1/daniel

Returns the profile: role, location, languages and the Microsoft certifications that are active.

Parameters

langenum
en or de. Defaults to en.

List selected work

GET/v1/work

Four systems I built in my current role. Each comes with a one-line summary, my role and the main keywords.

Returns

  1. AI Ops Platform
    ai-ops-platform

    AI-assisted IT service management for an internal IT team.

  2. 80 automations
    automations

    Daily IT operations, without heroics.

  3. Onboarding agent
    onboarding-agent

    New hires get answers from day one.

  4. IT second brain
    it-second-brain

    Team knowledge that outlasts holidays.

Ask the agent

POST/v1/agent

The one real endpoint. The agent answers only from the content of this page, cites its sources and refuses what it cannot back up.

Body

qstring
Your question. Max. 400 characters.
langenum
en or de.
historyarray
Earlier turns, optional.
Chat with it below

How I build AI

Career, skills, certifications

Time range

Roles by year

8+ years in senior & lead roles
  1. Senior IT Cloud Engineer2023 – now
  2. Senior System Engineer2020 – 2023
  3. Teamlead IT Operations2018 – 2020
  4. Apprenticeship, then System Administratorbefore 2018
PeriodRoleWhat I did
2023 – nowSenior IT Cloud EngineerAutomation and AI engineering for internal IT: an AI ops platform, 80 automations, an onboarding agent and an IT second brain.
2020 – 2023Senior System EngineerOpen SystemsManaged network & security services in a 24/7 operations environment. Certified Mission Control NOC Engineer.
2018 – 2020Teamlead IT OperationsTricentisLed the IT operations team.
before 2018Apprenticeship, then System AdministratorStarted in IT at fifteenClassic apprenticeship, then administration. Windows expert, Linux by conviction.

Skills

32

AI

  • LLMs
  • AI agents
  • Multi-step agents
  • Prompt engineering
  • LLM evaluation & guardrails
  • Knowledge bases

Cloud & Security

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft 365 administration
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Identity & access management
  • Azure Policy
  • Azure Monitor
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Defender XDR
  • KQL
  • Zero Trust

Automation

  • PowerShell
  • Bash
  • REST APIs
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure

  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Proxmox VE
  • Networking
  • DNS
  • TLS/PKI
  • SSO · OIDC · OAuth 2.0

Leadership

  • Team leadership
  • Stakeholder management
  • Mentoring

Ask my agent

It answers only from what's on this page, and cites its sources. No source, no answer. Try to break it.

POST/v1/agentready
  1. Hi, I'm Daniel's portfolio agent. I only answer what I can back up with a source from this page.

  2. Pick a question or type your own.

Off duty

Break it down. Understand it. Then build.

Drag them around. Click or press Enter to flip one.

Let's build something together.

daniel@scheckenbacher.com
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