Marc Schmitt
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Authentik Security
Katavi Region, France
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Top SchoolMarc Schmitt is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 9 years of experience building and operating resilient, cloud-native systems and teaching networking and distributed systems. Currently at Authentik Security, he focuses on authentication, authorization and infrastructure reliability while contributing to the open-source authentik project and improving security and race-condition fixes. His background includes SRE roles and large-scale migrations—deploying Ceph, OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters, and managing NixOS-based workstation fleets—demonstrating strong hands-on skills in GitOps and automation. On GitHub he contributes to nix-community/poetry2nix, improving Python package overrides for reproducible builds, reflecting a practical interest in package management and reproducibility. Based in France, he pairs deep computer-science curiosity with pragmatic engineering, and has experience teaching topics from BGP to X.509 certificates. Outside work he likes exploring new technologies and, as his bio quips, making “packets go wooosh.”
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Études générales, Études générales at Saint Yves High SchoolBaccalauréat, General Studies, Baccalauréat, General Studies at Collège Épiscopal Saint-Étienne StrasbourgBrevet des Collèges, General Studies, Brevet des Collèges, General Studies at Notre-Dame de Sion StrasbourgIngénierie informatique, Ingénierie informatique at California State University, Monterey BayEPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
English, French, German
Github Skills (18)
authorizations10
nix10
kerberos10
python10
package-management10
saml10
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
authorization10
oauth10
dockers9
docker9
cryptography9
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
goauthentik/authentik
Jun 2021 - Apr 2025
The authentication glue you need.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:887 reviews, 671 PRs, 1398 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:The user, Marc 'risson' Schmitt, primarily worked on features related to authentication, authorization and various providers. Their contributions included implementing features to customize authentication flows, adding functionality to the website and fixing various issues across multiple components. The user was also involved in fixing race conditions, URL parsing, and code formatting. Furthermore, they have been contributing to enhancing security and optimizing the system.
proxysaml-idpreverse-proxyoauth2-serverglue
nix-community/poetry2nix
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=]
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily focused on modifying the `overrides.nix` file to add Python package overrides for the poetry2nix project. These overrides included adding dependencies like `python-jose`, `python-ldap`, `colour`, `cryptography`, `cyclonedx-python-lib`, `httplib2`, `paramiko` and fixing a cryptography hash. Their contributions aimed to improve the compatibility and functionality of the project by ensuring the correct dependencies and configurations for various Python packages within a Nix environment. This suggests a focus on improving the package management aspects of the project.
pythonmaintainernixautomagicallynixpkgs
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