Christopher Schmidt
Principal Consultant at innoQ
Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorChristopher Schmidt is a Principal Consultant based in Friedrichshafen with 16 years of experience leading multinational engineering teams and driving software and systems architecture for production platforms. He blends hands-on technical delivery with business-focused leadership—managing deadlines, costs and operating platforms while architecting scalable solutions. His career spans senior roles from EADS through HolidayCheck to CTO and interim Head of IT positions, reflecting deep experience in both enterprise and product-oriented environments. An active contributor to open-source infrastructure, he implemented and hardened an Exoscale provider for the well-known external-dns project, showing practical expertise in cloud DNS automation. Christopher is known for treating innovative technologies as strategic differentiators and for translating architectural vision into maintainable, test-backed implementations.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed significantly to the Exoscale provider implementation, adding new functionality and making improvements to the existing code. They implemented the initial Exoscale provider, including the core logic for interacting with the Exoscale DNS API. Further commits introduced a dryRun feature and the ability to update existing DNS records, enhancing the provider's capabilities. The user also fixed tests, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and maintainability.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
FaKod/sjersey
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years
jax-rs-jerseyscalajerseyjaxjax-rs
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