Hey!

My name is Sten Heimbrodt, and I am a developer and masters student spending most of my free time writing software. Sten Heimbrodt on GitHub I love to write some Rust, Python or C/C++ code and I am always up for a good challenge. Right now I am pursuing my master's degree in computational science with a focus on high performance computing and networking aswell as geoinformatics. After graduation I want to pursue a career in academic research and work on the next generation of networks and distributed systems. I am also a big supporter of smart farming and vertical agriculture. Another great passion of mine is writing digital instruments and synthesizers in C/C++.

Recent Work

XenoFlow

XenoFlow is a high performance DNS load balancer built on SmartNICs. More specifically, it leverages the capabilities of SmartNICs hardware acceleration of the Nvidia Bluefield-3.

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Dock2Kube

Dock2Kube is a small tool that can be used to bridge the gap between the gap of a docker deployment and a kubernetes deployment.

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Lydia

Lydia is an ip scanner and ssh brute tool in one. Very convenient to work in a sandboxed environment and scan for targets.

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Laboratory

Laboratory is an enviroment for VST3 and standalone applications for the Slang programming language. It runs in every DAW that supports plugins.

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skt

Tired of looking up kubernetes service templates? SKT is your tool. It cannot be easier to get quick and dirty yaml's :P

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Slang

Slang is a proof-of-concept audioscripting language written in pure C. It is designed to run on every processor possible :)

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Publications

  • S. Heimbrodt, B. Schnor. Hardware-Accelerated Load Balancing on Bluefield-3 DPUs - XenoFlow Implementation and Performance Evaluation Poster, 4th Winter School on Operating Systems (WSOS) 2026.

  • M. Schrötter, S. Heimbrodt, B. Schnor. XenoFlow: How Fast Can a SmartNIC-Based DNS Load Balancer Run? GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) 2026.

  • S. Heimbrodt, Implementierung und Evaluation eines hardwarebeschleunigten Load-Balancers auf einer Nvidia Bluefield DPU Architektur Bachelorarbeit, Universität Potsdam, 2025.

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    Get In Touch

    If you have any question, just shoot me an email. Always up for a good chat!