Hi, I'm Fabian. Glad you found your way here.
I'm a software developer based in Austria — most at home somewhere between code and continents.
The Tech Side
By day, I design and run ImmoMonk, a cloud-based property management platform for the DACH market. From the first concept through architecture to deployment, the whole thing is mine to build and break. My stack revolves mostly around Python (Django, FastAPI), Vue and Quasar on the frontend, and everything around containers, Linux servers, and modern infrastructure.
What pulls me into development is the arc from tiny detail to bigger architecture. How do you scrub PII in a GDPR-compliant way before sending it to an LLM? How do you orchestrate microservices without drowning in complexity? How do you turn a retired thin client into a useful home server? These are the kinds of questions I can chase for days.
A big chunk of my current focus is infrastructure. I run ImmoMonk on a four-server cluster — a load balancer, two app servers and a dedicated database server — fully provisioned with OpenTofu and configured with Ansible, so the whole setup can be rebuilt from scratch with a handful of commands. On the homelab side, my little Lenovo ThinkCentre empire keeps growing, with Tailscale, Immich, Nginx Proxy Manager and friends. I'm also experimenting with local LLM inference and the question of when self-hosted hardware actually beats API costs, and thinking a lot about how to integrate AI into real products pragmatically — without chasing the hype.
The Travel Side
When I'm not writing YAML, I like being far away. Asia, Central America, New Zealand, Australia — the backpacking bug never quite let go. My best ideas tend to come on the move anyway: on a bus, a ferry, or somewhere around the third coffee in a café in a country whose language I barely speak.
I'm fascinated by traveling light, the small collisions between cultures, and the question of how to weave work and movement together. I've circled the digital nomad lifestyle more than once — the gap between the postcard version and reality is, as you'd expect, sizeable.
On the Side
I take too many photos — my home server has a thing or two to say about that. I care a lot about UI/UX design, because software shouldn't just work, it should feel right. I keep a curious eye on financial markets and tinker with options and derivatives — more as a learning field than a life mission. And I'm drawn to open source and startup culture, especially where the two intersect.
What You'll Find Here
On this blog I write about what's on my mind: tech notes from my developer day-to-day, travel diaries and photos, and the occasional thought about everything in between — like building a SaaS product as a solo developer without losing your mind or your wanderlust.
No marketing fluff, no "10 tools that changed my life" listicles. More the kind of writing I'd have liked to find online myself.
Say Hi
Drop me a message — German or English, both work. I'm always up for feedback, typo-spotting, travel tips, or just a quick "hey".