Hans-gunther Schmidt
Director Of Software Engineering at Meltwater
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolHans-gunther Schmidt is a Director of Software Engineering based in Berlin with 16 years of experience building high-throughput data ingestion and content platforms. He evolved from a polyglot backend engineer—working across Java, Scala, Go, Elixir and JavaScript—into a hands-on leader who now manages multiple engineering teams focused on AI-enabled crawling and fetching at Meltwater. Deeply pragmatic and a Unix-shell enthusiast, he combines DevOps, stream processing and API design expertise to deliver scalable, production-grade systems. His background includes mobile and API startups, founding a backend-as-a-service, and long-running production experience with Kubernetes, Docker and AWS. Known for empowering engineers and shipping pragmatic architectures, he still prefers solving everyday problems with simple shell commands.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker FR Systemintegration (System integration's consultant) Computer Engineering, Fachinformatiker FR Systemintegration (System integration's consultant) Computer Engineering at ATIW-Berufskolleg PaderbornDiplom Computer Science, Diplom Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (52)
asynchronous-javascript8
padding8
ruby7
linux7
homebrew7
macos6
emacs6
gruntjs6
intellij-idea6
toolbox6
shell5
elisp5
persistence5
magit5
health5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
otype/otype.de
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
otype/emacs.d
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Emacs configuration files
Contributions:2 releases, 116 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 8 months
elispemacs-customizationsspacemacsemacs-configurationmagit
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