Philipp Schmitt
Site Reliability Engineer at WIIT - The Premium Cloud
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPhilipp Schmitt is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Frankfurt with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, automation pipelines, and developer tooling. A GNU/Linux and FOSS enthusiast, he specializes in Kubernetes, containers, Docker, Python/Django, and systems administration, and has driven Kubernetes and microservices transitions as well as SUSE OpenStack deployments. At POST Luxembourg he automated CI/CD, secrets, monitoring and DCIM tooling, and today at WIIT he focuses on reliability and scalable cloud services. An active open-source contributor, he maintains build and packaging work for Termux—showing a penchant for practical, platform-focused automation—and advocates for libre software across projects. Colleagues know him for turning experimental POCs into production-ready automation and for bridging developer workflows with operations needs.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master Praktische Informatik, Master Praktische Informatik at Deutsch-Französisches Hochschulinstitut für Technik und Wirtschaft (DFHI) / Institut Supérieur Franco-Allemand de Techniques d´Economie et de Sciences
French, German, English
Stackoverflow
93reputation
4kreached
3answers
1question
Github Skills (18)
package-management10
linux10
bash10
termux10
automation10
script10
packager10
package10
build-automation10
version-control10
automations10
git9
go9
tmux6
zsh6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
termux/termux-packages
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
A package build system for Termux.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Philipp's contributions primarily focused on updating package definitions within the Termux package build system. They consistently updated the versions and associated metadata for various packages, including YADM, clash, sops, and neovim. The user also modified build scripts and configuration files to incorporate new features, dependencies, and ensure compatibility with the Termux environment. Additionally, the user addressed updates to tmux, including patching and version upgrades.
chromebookvnc-serverlinux-distributionlinuxandroid
pschmitt/pia-tools
Sep 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 releases, 184 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 11 months
transmissionport-forwardingprivateinternetaccessconnectedbash
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.