Automation · AI Integration · IT Infrastructure
Every business wastes time — on tasks that could have been automated long ago. What large organisations take for granted, I bring to businesses of every size: precisely implemented, fully documented, built to last.
10+
Years in Enterprise IT
10,000+
VMs administered
24/7
Infrastructure that runs
Problems I solve
Employees click through the same workflows. Data sits scattered and won't connect. IT infrastructure that runs somehow — until it doesn't. None of these problems are unsolvable.
"Our team clicks through the same 50 steps every single day — by hand."
An automated workflow takes over completely. Done in seconds, not hours, without errors.
"Our data sits in three different systems that never sync."
Connected systems, one source of truth — no more manual data transfer.
"We want to use AI but don't know where to start or what it will cost."
Honest feasibility analysis, clear proposal — only what actually delivers value.
"Our server works somehow — but nobody really knows how."
Clean, documented infrastructure that anyone can understand and maintain at any time.
"We need a tool that simply doesn't exist yet."
Custom software — built for exactly this problem, nothing more and nothing less.
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Infrastructure you forget — because it simply runs. Containerised deployments with Docker, secured via Cloudflare, scalable from a single server to the cloud. On-premises, hybrid or fully cloud-based.
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Profile
I'm Paul Scholz — IT specialist with a focus on automation, AI integration and infrastructure. No team, no agency. If you write, I read it. When I reply, it's my own assessment.
As COO of an IT service provider, I was responsible for infrastructure across a broad range of industries — from owner-managed businesses and healthcare to public-sector organisations. Since 2020, I've been responsible for critical IT infrastructure at one of Germany's largest federal agencies: hundreds of Hyper-V hosts managed via SCVMM, large-scale VDI environments, and automation pipelines built on Automic UC4 and Microsoft PowerShell that process tens of thousands of jobs every day.
Without enterprise overhead — but with enterprise quality. I know exactly what separates infrastructure that holds under operational pressure from infrastructure that only looks good in a demo. What I build is documented, maintainable, and designed to run when nobody is watching.
Privately, I run an extensive homelab: Docker stacks, local AI models via Ollama, self-hosted services. Not as a hobby — as a development environment for what I recommend to clients.
Selected work
More code and ongoing experiments live on my GitHub .
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Open source repositories, tooling experiments and automation projects for infrastructure and web workflows.
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Published Docker images for practical self-hosting and automation use cases.
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I am happy to hear from you about projects, collaborations or simply for an exchange.
I usually respond within 1–2 business days.
Most helpful: a brief description of the situation, what is envisioned, and whether there is a timeline.
