Michael Schmid
General Manager at Amazee Labs
Irvington, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Schmid is a tech-driven founder and general manager with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, developer-focused platforms and leading distributed teams. As Co-Founder and former CTO of amazee.io (and contributor to the open-source Lagoon platform), he blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—especially Kubernetes multi-cluster, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch and DBaaS integrations—with strategic product and company leadership. His background includes military leadership as a First Lieutenant and hands-on apprenticeships, which inform a pragmatic, team-centric management style that favors learning by doing. Based in Irvington, Virginia, he thrives on orchestrating systems at scale and keeps a broad skill set rather than narrowly specializing, often experimenting with new tech and creative side projects in his spare time.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
TBZ Technische Berufsschule Zürich
English, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
dockers10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
mysql9
helm9
automations8
api8
automation8
php8
apim8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
uselagoon/lagoon
Dec 2016 - Mar 2022
Lagoon, the developer-focused application delivery platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 releases, 83 reviews, 3962 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily revolved around enhancing the platform's infrastructure and integrating various services, focusing on Kubernetes deployment configurations. They implemented changes to support multi-cluster setups, integrating components like RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, and MySQL DBaaS, with attention to managing credentials and service interdependencies. They also worked on tasks related to deployment, and ensuring the reliability of components, emphasizing configuration and setup to support the correct operation of the system.
delivery-platformfocusedlagoonapplication-delivery
amazeeio/docker-haproxy
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Check the updated version at https://github.com/pygmystack/haproxy
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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