Nico Schieder
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Babensham, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolNico Schieder is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms, currently focused on Operator Lifecycle Manager within Red Hat OpenShift. He blends deep Kubernetes operator expertise with site reliability and platform engineering, having led teams and initiatives across Red Hat to simplify onboarding, scale hosted control planes, and build internal multi-cluster package tooling. As tech lead of the open-source KubeCarrier project and a contributor to notable projects like Hetzner Cloud CLI and Kubermatic, he routinely ships production-grade operator and monitoring integrations (Prometheus, scraping/retention, HTTPS access). Nico pairs technical leadership and mentorship—having managed an 8 FTE team in EMEA—with pragmatic product and onboarding experience from pre-sales to customer trainings. Comfortable across full-stack and infra (from CI/CD and Helm to Terraform and Ceph), he often turns operational pain points into reusable operator-based solutions. Based in Bavaria, he brings a practical, build-first approach that surfaces in both open-source leadership and large-scale Red Hat deployments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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German, English
Github Skills (25)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
server-manager10
command-line-interface10
bash10
manage10
go10
prometheus10
server-administration10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
server10
zsh10
cobra10
cli10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubermatic/kubermatic
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform - the Central Kubernetes Management Platform For Any Infrastructure
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nico's primary focus was on refactoring the cluster controller and implementing monitoring for the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform. They made code changes to integrate monitoring components, including Prometheus, by adding scraping configurations and setting up access through HTTPS. Furthermore, the user worked on configuring retention times for Prometheus storage and improving the scrape config for various components. This involved modifying deployments, configmaps and cluster roles, demonstrating a strong understanding of Kubernetes and monitoring best practices.
kubermatic-kubernetes-platformkubermaticcluster-apiinfrastructurek8s
hetznercloud/cli
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
A command-line interface for Hetzner Cloud
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 49 PRs, 52 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nico implemented shell completion for the Hetzner Cloud CLI, adding support for bash and zsh. They expanded the CLI functionality with server type commands, including listing and describing server types. Further enhancements included adding datacenter, location, and ISO commands, alongside features for attaching and detaching ISOs to servers. They also introduced commands for server updates and other server-related actions, such as rebuilding servers, changing server types, and enabling/disabling backups.
command-line-toolhcloudhetznercommand-line-interfacehetzner-cloud
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