Louise Schmidtgen
Software Engineer, Cloud Kubernetes at Canonical
Ettlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLouise Schmidtgen is a software engineer specializing in cloud-native Kubernetes at Canonical, with four years of experience building and securing container orchestration tooling. She contributes to MicroK8s, focusing on container runtimes (containerd, runc), AppArmor profiles, and secure runtime hardening like NoNewPrivileges—demonstrating deep practical knowledge of Kubernetes at the edge. Previously she worked on backend systems at Posit (formerly RStudio) and gained DevOps experience during an internship at Passport, giving her a strong full-stack-to-infrastructure perspective. A double-degree graduate in Computer Science and International Business with a 4.0 GPA, she pairs technical rigor with global business insight. Outside engineering she has a background as a D1 pole vaulter, reflecting discipline and a team-oriented competitive mindset.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Gardner-Webb UniversityAbitur, Abitur at Albertus Magnus Gymnasium Ettlingen
Github Skills (10)
runc10
kubernetes10
containerd10
docker10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
apparmor9
go8
cicd7
snap6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/microk8s
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 131 PRs, 155 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Louise primarily contributed to updating and patching containerization tools (containerd and runc) used by the project, suggesting expertise in container runtime environments. They implemented and adjusted AppArmor profiles and NoNewPrivileges settings for enhanced security. Furthermore, the user modified build scripts to update versions of related components. The user also contributed to version updates for k8s-dqlite.
microk8sedgefor-developersk8skubernetes
canonical/k8s-dqlite
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Dqlite for Kubernetes
Contributions:7 releases, 209 reviews, 92 PRs in 1 year 7 months
dqlitek8skubernetes
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