Michael Schmidt
Head Of PlusOne Central Engineering at SAP
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Schmidt is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years at SAP, currently heading PlusOne Central Engineering to deliver SAP Cloud Infrastructure globally. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native operations and Go with proven experience managing large fleets of production clusters and teams of 20+ engineers. A pragmatic architect and coach, he has driven major platform shifts—introducing Kubernetes and container-based managed services at scale and guiding PCI‑DSS adaptations and large lift‑and‑shift migrations. Based in Berlin, he values diversity and builds positive cultures while still diving into low-level cloud engineering, blending strategic leadership with continued technical craftsmanship. An early adopter of DevOps and continuous delivery practices, he retains a researcher’s curiosity from his TU Berlin background in computer science and rocket engineering.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-Diploma, Computer Science, Mathematics, Pre-Diploma, Computer Science, Mathematics at TU KarlsruheDiploma, Computer Science (Rocket Engineering, Astronomy), Diploma, Computer Science (Rocket Engineering, Astronomy) at TU Berlin
English, German, French
Github Skills (193)
dashboard10
sap-cap10
plugin-development10
sap10
grafana10
scheduling10
coreos10
elasticsearch10
k8s10
monitoring10
mesos10
cloud-foundry10
go-client10
charts10
helm10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
BugRoger/d26a
Feb 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 139 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 8 months
BugRoger/coreos-overlay
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 57 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year
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