Björn Schmitt
Lead Software Engineer at bjoern.io
Saarland, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBjörn Schmitt is a Lead Software Engineer with 16+ years designing and running web and e-commerce platforms, currently steering the e-commerce stack and technical vision for Native Instruments and iZotope. He blends hands-on full‑stack development (PHP, TypeScript, Node.js, Symfony/Laravel, GraphQL) with cloud and infra expertise (GCP, Kubernetes, CDNs, caching) to deliver reliable, scalable customer-facing systems. Known for hiring, onboarding, and mentoring engineers, he shapes roadmaps and engineering culture while staying close to incident response, monitoring, and CI/CD. His background spans product UX and performance work—introducing Varnish, ElasticSearch, and Akamai early in his career—so he balances developer ergonomics with real-world operational concerns. Operating from Saarland, Germany, he also runs a small web consultancy, keeping practical system administration and client-facing skills sharp.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Computer Software Engineering, Diplom, Computer Software Engineering at Hochschule KaiserslauternAbitur, Abitur at Gymnasium Wendalinum
German, English
Github Skills (25)
php10
lumen10
ecommerce9
magento9
publish9
adobe9
affiliates8
laravel8
amqp7
error-reporting6
logging5
stackdriver4
google-cloud4
cqrs3
payment-gateway2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bschmitt/laravel-amqp
Sep 2016 - Apr 2019
AMQP wrapper for Laravel and Lumen to publish and consume messages
Contributions:4 commits, 2 comments in 2 years 6 months
publishphpconsumelumenamqp
GlueDev/laravel-stackdriver
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Enables logging, tracing and error reporting to Google Stackdriver for Laravel
Contributions:2 commits in 3 months
reportingtracingloggingerror-reportinggoogle-stackdriver
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