Heinz Schmidt
Platform Engineer
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHeinz Schmidt is a Platform Engineer with nine years of experience designing and operating resilient cloud networks, currently managing AWS-to-on‑premise architecture and disaster recovery at Genomics England. He brings practical DevOps craftsmanship—Terraform, Bash/Zsh, Python, Node.js—and a strong focus on performance, routing, security, and change management in high‑availability environments. Comfortable across AWS and Azure, he balances infrastructure-as-code automation with hands-on network troubleshooting to keep sensitive genomic workloads running smoothly. Born in South Africa and trained in psychology, he combines technical rigor with an analytical, human-centered approach to incident response and stakeholder communication.
9 years of coding experience
Intermediate Certificate, Photography, Intermediate Certificate, Photography at Pretoria Photographic CollegeUniversity of Pretoria
Finnish, English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (20)
docker-container9
dockerfile8
docker-image8
docker-compose7
docker7
primefaces6
file-upload6
ioerror6
spring-webflow6
docker-swarm5
remote-development5
portainer5
kubernetes5
moby4
namespaces4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HeinzSchmidt/azure-appconfig-dotnetexample
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
HeinzSchmidt/acloudguru-learn-terraform-github-actions
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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