Martin Schneppenheim
Software Engineer at Redpanda Data
Cascais, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Schneppenheim is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in backend systems, distributed messaging, and cloud-native deployments, currently building at Redpanda Data in Cascais, Portugal. He has a strong track record in the Kafka ecosystem—contributing to widely used projects like franz-go, IBM's sarama, and Redpanda Console—where he focused on client libraries, API implementations, observability, and secure connectivity. Prior roles at REWE digital and freelance work honed his cloud platform and DevOps skills, including dockerization, TLS/SASL integration, and Prometheus exporter design. Martin combines pragmatic engineering with attention to performance and maintainability, often surfacing improvements through refactors, tests, and documentation. He holds a Bachelor's in Business Information Systems and brings a practical bridge between product needs and robust backend implementations. An understated strength is his pattern of contributing small, high-impact changes to open-source tooling that improve real-world Kafka operations.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Information System, Bachelor's degree, Business Information System at Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln
Github Skills (29)
docker10
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tls1210
testing10
kafka10
go-testing10
sasl10
tls1310
dockers10
exporter10
mtls10
go10
prometheus10
libtls10
apache-kafka10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/kminion
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
KMinion is a feature-rich Prometheus exporter for Apache Kafka written in Go. It is lightweight and highly configurable so that it will meet your requirements.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 83 reviews, 397 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on enhancing the Kafka exporter by adding new features and improving its robustness. Their contributions include adding health check endpoints, integrating TLS support for secure communication with Kafka brokers, documenting environment variables, and adding metrics related to partitions. They also introduced improvements related to the metrics collection of consumer groups and implemented memory optimizations. The user also fixed code typos and refactored code in multiple areas, specifically improving the performance and maintainability of the exporter.
exportergolangconsumer-groupprometheus-exporterapache-kafka
redpanda-data/console
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 releases, 609 reviews, 1156 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Martin's contributions primarily focused on developing and maintaining the backend of the Redpanda Console application. The user implemented changes related to the application's configuration, including removing outdated features and improving the pprof endpoint. The commits also involved tasks to dockerize the backend, indicating work on improving the application's deployment and packaging. The user also worked on enhancements to existing API endpoints related to consuming topics.
real-time-datareal-timegroupsapache-kafkaworkloads
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