Hi, I'm
Yunus Emre Inal
IT service provider from Bottrop, Germany. I help companies with IT infrastructure, cloud and data protection and build my own software.
About me
I'm Yunus Emre Inal, an IT service provider based in the Ruhr area, Germany. With my company Inal IT I support businesses across Germany with managed IT services, cloud solutions and infrastructure: personal, GDPR-compliant and without vendor lock-in.
I've been working in IT since 2017: trained in a hospital environment at KKRN, then IT administrator at Hertener Stadtwerke, now system engineer at Michael Bockhoff GmbH. In late 2022 I additionally started my own business, Inal IT, and built Backup Control Plane, my own software for centrally managing backups.
Focus areas
- Proxmox & VMware
- OPNsense firewall & VPN (WireGuard)
- Active Directory, Entra ID & Microsoft 365
- Networking: VLAN, routing & UniFi
- Monitoring & SIEM (Checkmk, Wazuh)
- Backup (Veeam, Proxmox Backup Server)
- SSO & MFA with Authentik
- Automation with Ansible (IaC)
- Linux server administration
- Cloud & hosting (Hetzner, Nextcloud)
- IT security & GDPR
- Local AI systems (llama.cpp)
Portfolio
Inal IT
My IT services company: managed IT services, cloud and infrastructure for small and medium businesses: personally managed, GDPR-compliant and on German infrastructure.
Backup Control Plane
Self-hosted backup orchestration for managed service providers: centrally schedule, monitor and restore file and VM backups, end-to-end encrypted.
Nginx Control Plane
Self-hosted nginx orchestration for managed service providers: centrally plan, deploy and monitor reverse-proxy, load-balancer and TLS configurations across many servers.
Sentinaut
Self-hosted monitoring & alerting for managed service providers: watch servers, services and websites around the clock, catch incidents early and get notified automatically.
Career
My professional path from a hospital IT apprenticeship through several IT administrator roles to system engineer, and self-employed since 2022.
Career
Since July 2023
System Engineer · Michael Bockhoff GmbH
Server administration and migrations, Active Directory and Microsoft 365, virtualization and VDI, networking, firewalls and IT security, backup and patch management, plus network planning and infrastructure projects at group level, including integration of acquired companies.
Since December 2022
Founder & Owner · Inal IT
Independently built and operate a managed-services platform on German infrastructure for around ten SMB clients: from virtualization, networking and firewalls to central monitoring, SIEM and backup strategies, single sign-on, MFA and full automation as infrastructure as code. GDPR-compliant, including my own data processing agreements.
October 2021 – June 2023
IT Administrator · Hertener Stadtwerke GmbH
June 2020 – September 2021
IT Administrator · KKRN Katholisches Klinikum Ruhrgebiet Nord GmbH
August 2017 – May 2020
Apprenticeship, IT Systems Administration · KKRN
Contact
The best way to reach me is by email. I usually reply within one business day.