Hey, I'm Ismar 👋

DevOps & Platform Engineer based in Zurich. I build developer tools, contribute upstream to open-source projects, and automate everything I can get my hands on.

Currently: Managing GitOps-powered Kubernetes infrastructure at PostFinance, serving millions of customers.

After hours: Building copier-uv-bleeding — a modern Python project template — and contributing features upstream to copier and git-town.

What I'm working on

• 🔧 copier-uv-bleeding — Python project template with uv, ty, prek, and semantic-release
• 🐱 bengal — My fork of a very nice, high-performance static site generator for Python 3.14+
• 🔌 unblu-mcp — MCP server for Unblu API with progressive disclosure
• 🦊 efficient-gitlab-mcp — Token-efficient GitLab MCP server (93% fewer tokens)

Open-source contributions

• copier — Implementing copier adopt for adopting templates in existing projects (PR)
• git-town — Fixed missing mr list subcommand for GitLab support

Links

• 🌐 ismar.ch — Blog, projects, and more
• 🏢 @detailobsessed — Where most of my projects live