Gilson Schmid
Head Of DevOps & Agility At Workplace at Allianz Technology
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGilson Schmid is a Munich-based technology leader with 13 years of hands-on engineering and people leadership experience, currently heading DevOps and agility for Workplace at Allianz Technology. He blends deep operational know-how—evidenced by contributions to the widely used BigBlueButton open-source conferencing stack—with pragmatic agile coaching, having led OKR adoption and cross-functional delivery across organizations. Gilson has repeatedly scaled processes for dozens of teams, aligned product development with regulatory requirements (ISO 13485/MDR) in digital health, and built high-performing teams through hiring and mentoring. He pairs low-level systems experience in C/C++ and Ruby with modern DevOps practices, making him equally comfortable shipping code, improving CI/CD, or advising executives on strategic alignment.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Computer Engineering, Engineer's Degree Computer Engineering at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
English, Portuguese, German
Github Skills (22)
decryption10
bigbluebutton10
ruby10
openssl10
conferencing10
devops10
collaboration10
encryption10
scripting9
video-conferencing9
apidoc9
api9
shell9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
Nov 2012 - Feb 2013
Complete open source web conferencing system.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gilson implemented and integrated Mconf scripts for processing and publishing recordings, including encryption, decryption, and metadata generation. They modified core BigBlueButton library files to support the Mconf recording workflow and added a God process to automate the uncrypting of files. The user also modified the API to include new object downloads into the getRecordings XML reply, indicating API integration and system-level modifications.
kurentobigbluebuttonjavascriptcollaborationvideo-conferencing
gilsonsouza/zero
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
storage-managerrecoverystorageinstant
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