Jan Schmitt
Software Architect at WEPA
Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Schmitt is a software architect with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable backend systems and DevOps practices across telco and enterprise domains. Currently at WEPA after designing resilient Java-based services and observability stacks at sipgate, he focuses on reproducibility, monitoring, and operational excellence. He blends deep backend and infrastructure skills—CI/CD, Ansible, Docker, Grafana—with a history of shipping tooling and test automation in Python, Bash and Java. His background spans product teams, consulting, and multimedia signal-processing work, reflecting a practical, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. Based in Ratingen, Germany, he values open source principles and brings a craftsman’s attention to dependable, auditable systems. An inquisitive tinkerer, he once built an e-learning course to teach Python, showing a commitment to knowledge sharing beyond day-to-day engineering.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Media informatics, Master of Science - MS Media informatics at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences
German, English
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Github Skills (200)
vim10
nvim10
api10
nixpkgs10
nix10
home-manager10
launchd10
nixos10
extensibility10
vim-plugin10
lua10
linux10
text-editor10
darwin10
neovim10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
lockejan/dotfiles
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
managed dotfiles for vim, zsh, ...
Contributions:92 commits, 2 PRs, 119 pushes in 9 months
zshrcvimtmuxneovimasdf
lockejan/nixpkgs
Mar 2022 - Jul 2024
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:71 pushes, 35 branches in 2 years 4 months
nixosnix-packages
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