Summary
Olivier Schmitt is a Principal Research Engineer based in Switzerland with 15 years of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native platforms, data pipelines, and developer tooling at Sonar. A Java Champion and polyglot coder comfortable in Java, Go, JavaScript and TypeScript, he combines deep systems design with practical infrastructure skills—Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and IaC—earned through focused professional courses and years of platform roles. His career began in public-sector architecture and technical leadership in France, evolving into senior cloud, data and research engineering roles that bridge product needs and scalable operations. Known for translating complex requirements into reliable, production-grade systems, he also mentors teams on agile practices and technical leadership. An engineer who still loves to “craft things,” he brings research rigor to pragmatic engineering decisions and a track record of steadily increasing responsibility within the same organization.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Python and Infrastructure as code, Python and Infrastructure as code at A cloud guru
Blockchain, Ethereum Blockchain Developer, Blockchain, Ethereum Blockchain Developer at Udemy
Kubernetes, Kubernetes at Udemy Academy
PMI-ACP®: Agile Project Management, PMI-ACP®: Agile Project Management at Pluralsight