David Schweikert
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDavid Schweikert is a seasoned systems engineer and team lead with 25 years of experience specializing in cloud-native computing, public cloud infrastructure, SRE, and infrastructure-as-code. Based in Zurich and armed with an MSc from ETH Zurich, he excels at troubleshooting hard problems and making systems more reliable, performant, and scalable through automation and observability. A pragmatic programmer steeped in Unix/Linux and mail systems, he contributes to open source—improving tools like the high-performance fping utility with IPv6, AIX, and sequencing fixes—demonstrating attention to cross-platform compatibility. Colleagues rely on him to combine hands-on engineering with leadership to turn brittle setups into robust, auditable production environments.
25 years of coding experience
MSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
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Github Skills (6)
c1710
c1110
ipv610
network-programming10
icmp9
portability9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
schweikert/fping
Dec 2011 - Oct 2022
High performance ping tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 20 reviews, 502 commits in 11 years
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to improving the fping utility's functionality and compatibility. They integrated patches from Debian to improve IPv6 support and fixed issues related to sequence numbering and byte order. Furthermore, the user implemented changes from Tobias Oetiker, indicating contributions toward integrating external improvements, and also addressed a compilation problem related to AIX compatibility.
golangfpingbsd-licensenetwork-toolslinux
schweikert/Config-Grammar
Jul 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 9 months
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