Philip Schmid
Senior Customer Success Architect, Isovalent At Cisco
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPhilip Schmid is a Senior Customer Success Architect at Isovalent at Cisco in Zurich with 10 years of experience bridging networking, Linux, and cloud-native operations. He progressed from hands-on network and Linux administration to solutions architecture and customer-facing technical leadership, helping organizations adopt Kubernetes and eBPF-powered networking. Philip contributes to the widely used Cilium project as a technical writer, improving installation, Helm values, and troubleshooting docs—evidence of his focus on reducing operational friction for users. He holds a Bachelor of Science FHO and combines field experience with a knack for clarifying complex distributed-systems concepts for practitioners.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science FHO, Bachelor of Science FHO at HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
Github Skills (8)
documentations10
documentation10
helm9
kubernetes-pod9
kubernetes9
networking8
cnc7
debugging7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
May 2020 - Feb 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:50 reviews, 24 PRs, 99 comments in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the Cilium documentation by fixing broken links, correcting inaccuracies, and adding clarifications. Their work involved updating and improving various documentation sections, including Helm values, installation guides, and troubleshooting sections. The contributions demonstrate a focus on ensuring the documentation's accuracy and usability for end-users. They also updated the documentation to reflect recent changes to the software, and improved the overall structure.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
PhilipSchmid/tetragon
Nov 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:106 pushes, 21 branches in 10 months
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