👤 Personal Info
Name: Enrico Aderhold
Born: Late 1972
Origin: East Germany
Lives in: Allstedt, Germany
Status: Married to Sabine
Children: Sally (♂), Eric (♂), Alex (♂)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Life

Sabine and I have been together since 2004.
We married in August 2019 after years of shared battles and blessings.
We have a son, Alex, but I also consider Sally, though not biologically mine, as my own.

Sally works for the local government and trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) with me. He holds a blue belt and is pushing toward purple.
Eric lives in Nuremberg, is open-minded and a fellow tech geek – not surprising, given our family's network roots.
Alex is an elite athlete in rowing at a sports school in Halle/Saale. His 8-man crew took bronze at the 2024 World Championships in Ontario, behind the UK and USA. He’s chasing Olympic dreams – 2028 or 2032.

“My pride lies not in what I do, but in what they become.”

💼 Working Life

🛠️ The Early Days

Started my career in September 1989 as a farmer trainee. But when the wall fell, I switched tracks and dove into the unknown:
Car painting, house building, drywalling – whatever paid the bills.

💻 Life Behind the Keyboard

My tech spark lit in 1989, hacking on a C64. I was more obsessed with how games worked than playing them.

💾 My Digital Awakening – A Tech Timeline

  • 1990 – Got my first Atari.
    The spark was lit. Games were fun – but how they worked? That was the real magic.

  • 1993 – A dusty 286 PC landed in my room.
    I cracked it open and never looked back. Nights spent with MS-DOS, autoexec.bat and config wizardry.

  • 1995 – Met Windows NT 3.1.
    Stable, fast – fell in love instantly. The click of a new era.

  • 2001 – Bought my first Mac.
    Sleek. Stylish. UNIX underneath. A new toy and tool in one.

  • 2003 – Hosted my first gaming server.
    TCE Elite (True Combat) and Counter-Strike ran on my home rig, and I learned what latency really means.

  • 2004 – Became a full-blown hostmaster.
    Managed over 100 websites and multiple game servers. Apache configs, BIND, MySQL, broken backups at 3am – the real sysadmin experience.

That led me into IT professionally:

Worked as a System Engineer for Microsoft Servers and Workstations at Deutsche Telekom in Frankfurt, then moved into hardcore networking.
Over the years, I’ve worked with:
Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank, Allianz, Deutsche Post, Siemens, Cable & Wireless, MicroStaxx, Vion IT Services, and now HCD Consulting GmbH.

🧠 Skills & Certs

I’m fluent in:

  • Wireless (802.11)
  • Networking (802.3)
  • Network Security
  • Unix-based systems

Certifications include:

  • CWNP
  • Juniper (active renewal)
  • Cisco
  • Arista
  • Nvidia
  • HP, RedHat and more

🙏 A Few Thanks

  • Michael Krämer – My intro to IT and Computers
  • Bernd Schärf – Showed me real networking
  • Malgorzata Kurc – Pushed me to learn English
  • Guan Deng, Florian Seffert, Alex Jauns, Marcel van Doorp – My current inspirations

📡 WiFi Mission

I'm diving deeper into WiFi. My goal: CWNE and beyond.
The road is tough, but I’m wired for challenge.

CWNP ID: 634461
CWNP Validation

  • 🎓 CWNA – May 1, 2023
  • 🎓 CWDP – May 23, 2023
  • 🎓 CWAP – Jan 14, 2024
  • 🎓 CWSP – Apr 03 2025
  • ⏳ CWISA – planned May 2025

👉 Verify via CWNP / Creedly – all certs public.
Credly Profile

🥋 Sports Life

As a kid: good at sprinting, jumping, weightlifting, and tried Judo (orange belt - today i am a blue belt).

  • Late 90s: Muay Thai →
  • Then: Skydiving
  • 2008: Back to fighting → Kickboxing
  • Discovered MMA by chance
  • Gym closed. Moved for work to Hannover
  • I started playing golf in 2012. Ten years later, I’m still swinging — currently playing off a 26.5 handicap - since years.

🥷 BJJ Journey

Landed at FightSchool Hannover:

  • Started Luta Livre under David Polokay & Murad
  • Evenings: BJJ with Douglas Mayer
  • Since 2016: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is home
  • 2018: Earned my blue belt
  • 2022: Promoted to purple belt in Halle/Saale

Currently training in Halle and anywhere I pass through.

👊 My Heroes

Not the Gracies or Miyaos. I’m inspired by:

🥋 Heather Raftery
🥋 Christian Graugart
🥋 Dr. Andreas Fischer
🥋 Tijana Novoselic
🥋 Frank Burczynski
🥋 Onur Yasar
🥋 Sebastian Otto

🧬 BJJ Fanatics

"I build networks. I break sweat. I live code. I fight gravity. I don’t do average."
— Enrico Aderhold