Jochen Scherschmidt
Software Development Manager at SAP
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJochen Scherschmidt is a Software Development Manager based in Munich with 14 years of experience leading engineering teams at scale, currently driving software delivery at SAP. He combines hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by substantive contributions to the Cloud Foundry ecosystem such as improving cloud_controller_ng metrics, fixing race conditions, and expanding cf-acceptance-tests—to ensure reliability in cloud-native platforms. With a Dipl. Inf. in Wirtschaftsinformatik and an Executive MBA, he blends technical depth with strategic management and product-minded decision making. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who focuses on observability, test coverage, and operational correctness rather than just feature velocity.
14 years of coding experience
Executive MBA General Management, General Management and Entrepreneurship, Executive MBA General Management, General Management and Entrepreneurship at Steinbeis Hochschule BerlinComputer Science and Business Administration, Computer Science and Business Administration at University of RegensburgDipl. Inf., Computer Science and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsinformatik), Dipl. Inf., Computer Science and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at Hochschule Furtwangen
Github Skills (10)
ruby10
testing10
go10
statsd10
cloud-foundry10
web-deploy10
web-deployment10
metric10
buildpack10
database-management9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cf-acceptance-tests
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
CF Acceptance tests
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 releases, 43 reviews, 11 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jochen primarily focused on enhancing and expanding the acceptance tests for the Cloud Foundry platform. They added support for additional stacks (cflinuxfs4) in the testing configuration. The user also introduced new tests for buildpacks, including tests for nginx and R buildpacks, and corrected issues in existing tests. This work directly improved the testing coverage and reliability of the CF platform.
testingacceptance-testscff-wg-app-runtime-deploymentsacceptance
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 6 commits, 27 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jochen primarily focused on improving the Cloud Controller's metrics and addressing race conditions. They added and renamed metrics to monitor request performance, using statsd to emit gauge values. Furthermore, the user fixed a race condition in the buildpack deletion process by ensuring the database record is deleted before the associated blob. The user also made general improvements to the system, such as refactoring the code and correcting errors.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
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