Christof Schmitt
IBM Storage Scale Core Development
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristof Schmitt is a seasoned systems and storage software engineer with 14 years of experience and a long history at IBM driving core development for scale-out storage products. He combines deep Linux kernel and system-level expertise—maintaining the zfcp driver and contributing significant cleanup, tests, and a TOCTOU fix to the high-profile Samba project—with hands-on leadership for SMB and SONAS/IBM Spectrum Scale integration. Known as a go-to technical lead in distributed, global teams, he bridges customer-facing triage and internal delivery to keep complex releases on track. Based in Tucson, he continuously learns new technologies and stewardships open source collaborations, which keeps his work tightly aligned with both upstream communities and enterprise product needs.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl-Ing. (FH), Technische Informatik, Dipl-Ing. (FH), Technische Informatik at Hochschule Mannheim
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
c1710
filesystem10
virtual-file-system10
c1110
vfs10
samba10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
samba-team/samba
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christof primarily contributed to the Samba project by removing dead or redundant code, focusing on conditional compilation blocks and deprecated features. Their work involved cleaning up code related to various components, including `lib/util`, `smbd`, `s4:client`, and `pam_winbind`. They also added unit tests and implemented a fix for a TOCTOU (Time-of-check Time-of-use) vulnerability in the `pam_winbind` module, and added tests for the vfs_posixacl module.
sambagitlab-mirrorgitlabgit-mergemerge-requests
gwr/samba
Aug 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:545 commits in 4 years
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