Henrik Schmidt
Developer at Nile
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarHenrik Schmidt is a seasoned backend and DevOps engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and production-grade tooling from Hamburg. He has strong Go and SRE chops from roles at Confluent and Loodse and recently focused on architecture and developer-facing systems as a Sr. Software Architect at Qdrant before joining Nile. Henrik is an active open-source contributor to the Kubermatic ecosystem, adding AWS, DigitalOcean, OpenStack and Hetzner integrations and fixing critical runtime issues in the machine-controller and central management platform. He excels at bridging cloud-provider APIs, automation, and observability—often solving edge cases like default VPCs and null-pointer crashes that reveal deep operational understanding. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that scale across heterogeneous infrastructures.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
digitalocean10
kubernetes10
hetzner-cloud10
container10
docker10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
openstack10
aws10
back-end-development10
containerization10
kubernetes-pods10
terraform9
backend9
terraformer9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubermatic/kubermatic
Oct 2016 - Sep 2019
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform - the Central Kubernetes Management Platform For Any Infrastructure
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1124 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Henrik made several contributions related to infrastructure and backend code within the `kubermatic/kubermatic` repository, focused on AWS cloud provider integration. Their work included adding security group rules to allow all protocols on all ports, supporting default VPCs and cloud-provider flag configuration, as well as implementing an improved logging system. Furthermore, the user addressed a critical issue by fixing a null pointer exception when setting cloud specifications for non-AWS clusters.
kubermatic-kubernetes-platformkubermaticcluster-apiinfrastructurek8s
kubermatic/machine-controller
Dec 2017 - Aug 2019
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 releases, 146 commits, 206 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Henrik primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `machine-controller` project, specifically focusing on the implementation of cloud provider integrations. Their work includes adding support for various cloud providers such as AWS, DigitalOcean, OpenStack, and Hetzner Cloud, indicating a focus on back-end cloud infrastructure management. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of integrating with cloud provider APIs and setting up user data for provisioned machines, which includes also configuration of Kubelet and its related flags.
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