Jan Schmitt
Software Architect at WEPA
Dusseldorf, 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 (182)
nix10
vim10
lua10
nvim10
launchd10
nixos10
linux10
git-commit10
api10
git10
text-editor10
darwin10
nixpkgs10
neovim10
editor9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
lockejan/nix-dotfiles
Jan 2022 - Jun 2026
Personal dotfiles using nix, nix-darwin and home-manager
Contributions:13 PRs, 290 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 6 months
nix-flakenixos-configurationosxnix-dotfilesnixos
lockejan/scytale
May 2021 - Aug 2025
cli wizard to encrypt and decrypt strings using scytale cipher
Contributions:4 releases, 19 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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