👤 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 – First Atari: the spark was lit.
  • 1993 – First 286 PC: MS-DOS nights and BIOS magic.
  • 1995 – Met Windows NT 3.1: fell in love instantly.
  • 2001 – First Mac: sleek and UNIX-based. Perfect mix.
  • 2003 – Hosted my first gaming server: latency became real.
  • 2004 – Became a hostmaster: 100+ websites, Apache configs, BIND, MySQL, 3am recoveries.

I then went full-time into IT: Worked as System Engineer for Microsoft at Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt) and moved into hardcore networking.

Clients included: Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank, Allianz, Deutsche Post, Siemens, Cable & Wireless, MicroStaxx, Vion IT Services, and now HCD Consulting GmbH.

 

🧠 Skills & Certs

Fluent in:

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

Certifications:

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

 

🙏 A Few Thanks

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

 

 

📡 WiFi Mission

My current focus: mastering WiFi. Goal: CWNE and beyond.

CWNP ID: 634461 – Verify

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

Credly Profile

 

🥋 Sports Life

As a kid: sprinting, jumping, lifting, Judo (orange belt – today: blue).

  • Late 90s: Muay Thai
  • Then: Skydiving
  • 2008: Kickboxing
  • Discovered MMA, moved to Hannover
  • 2012: Started golf – now playing at 26.5 handicap

 

🥷 BJJ Journey

Started Luta Livre at FightSchool Hannover under David Polokay & Murad. BJJ with Douglas Mayer.

  • Since 2016: BJJ is home
  • 2018: Earned blue belt
  • 2022: Promoted to purple belt
  • 2025: Promoted to brown belt

Currently training in Halle and on the road.

 

👊 My Heroes

 

🧬 BJJ Fanatics

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