David Schmidt
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Schmidt is a Principal Software Engineer in Houston with nearly two decades of hands-on experience tuning server and virtualization performance for enterprise products. He built deep expertise at HPE as a Master Technologist leading SPEC benchmark publications and chairing the SPEC OSG virtualisation subcommittee, ensuring marketing claims matched strict benchmark compliance. At Red Hat he continues to apply that systems-level performance focus to open-source and commercial solutions, bridging hardware, firmware, and software teams to validate next-generation processor features. With an MS in Physics, he combines rigorous measurement discipline and scientific curiosity to solve complex performance problems that often live at the intersection of BIOS, storage, and hypervisors. An understated strength is his long track record of influencing industry benchmarking standards, shaping how real-world datacenter performance is measured and communicated.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Physics, Master of Science (MS), Physics at University of Houston
Github Skills (162)
tooling10
python10
automation10
k8s10
ssh10
operator10
network-configuration10
kubernetes-deployment10
ansible10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
redhat10
graph10
iks10
openshift10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
stolostron/build-harness-extensions
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
Extensions to Cloud Posse build-harness
Contributions:70 reviews, 218 commits, 79 PRs in 2 years 6 months
cloudextensionsposseharness
stolostron/deploy
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Deploy Development Builds of Open Cluster Management (OCM) on RedHat Openshift Container Platform
Contributions:4 reviews, 1687 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 9 months
cluster-managementopenshiftoperatorhybrid-cloudmulti-cloud
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