Hernán Schmidt
Senior Product Manager at SUSE
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolHernán Schmidt is a Senior Product Manager with 11 years of experience combining hands-on engineering, agile leadership, and product ownership in enterprise open-source environments. At SUSE he led major platform transformations—migrating infrastructure to AWS and replacing a legacy Oracle/Siebel backend with Salesforce—while founding a DevOps squad to improve delivery and reliability. He started as a full-stack Ruby on Rails engineer and technical co-founder, bringing deep practical knowledge of backend systems, testing, and integrations (including contributions to the openSUSE OSEM event manager). Bilingual and internationally seasoned across Chile, the U.S., Germany and Sweden, he excels at translating customer needs into usable, valuable solutions and improving cross-team collaboration. A pragmatic perfectionist who brews beer and sails when not solving product problems, he combines curiosity with a bias for action.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Computer Engineer, Computer Science, Industrial Computer Engineer, Computer Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileExchange Student, Computer Science, Exchange Student, Computer Science at Uppsala universitetThePowerMBA Program, Business Administration and Management, General, ThePowerMBA Program, Business Administration and Management, General at ThePowerMBA
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (18)
ruby-rails10
database-api10
mysql10
rspec10
databases10
rails10
ruby10
rails-app10
database10
event-sourcing9
video-conferencing9
event-emitter9
conferencing9
eventing9
eventsource9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/osem
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 24 PRs, 16 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Hernán primarily focused on improving the stability and maintainability of the application's back-end code. Their contributions involved fixing controller specs to work with MySQL, ensuring proper database interactions, and addressing compatibility issues within the testing environment. The user also refactored code, addressed errors, and implemented adjustments to meet the requirements of the database. Further work included fixing campaign and model specifications and integrating changes from the master branch.
eventsevent-managementrailsrails-applicationtailored
lagartoflojo/gnomehub
Dec 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 98 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 1 month
gnome-shell-extensiongithub-reposgnomegithub-favoritepanel
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