Gerald Schmidt
Head Of Engineering For Digital & Data
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGerald Schmidt is a Head of Engineering for Digital & Data with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, teams and infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP. Deeply pragmatic about infrastructure as code since 2014, he has specialised in Kubernetes, data platforms and data-intensive streaming (Kafka, Flink) while enabling ML teams with production-ready foundations. He moves fluidly between hands-on platform engineering and people leadership, having led platform and data engineering at DS Smith, Babylon and ThoughtWorks and worked across finance, health, education and more. A Cambridge PhD in English turned lifelong open-source enthusiast, he combines a researcher’s rigor with an engineer’s focus on simplifying platforms, reducing cloud costs and measuring team success. Not immediately obvious: he pairs platform architecture with a talent for clearing organisational paths to production, making complex systems operationally simple.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD English, PhD English at University of CambridgeBachelor's Degree English, Bachelor's Degree English at University of Kent at Canterbury
English, German
Github Skills (70)
kubectl10
game-engine9
opennebula9
kvm9
vms9
draw2d9
game-development9
virtual-machine9
xen9
postscript9
freetype9
vdi9
matching9
nightly9
lxc9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gerald1248/openshift-unit
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:72 commits, 1 PR, 59 pushes in 4 months
clusterkubernetesopenshiftopenshift-cluster
gerald1248/kubernetes-open-source-slides
Jul 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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