Robert Neumayer
Senior Software Engineer at Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Neumayer is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and automating large-scale distributed systems, currently supporting the Cyber Security Center for Norwegian research and higher education. He combines deep backend Java expertise with hands-on infrastructure work—CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes and OCI—gained through leading Oracle’s infrastructure management and MySQL build migrations to cloud. A pragmatic team lead and mentor, he has repeatedly streamlined dev processes and improved reliability via automation and resilient API retry strategies. Active in open source, he contributed notable improvements to HashiCorp Packer’s OCI builder and hardened MySQL Docker images with better build processes and tests. His background spans academic research (PhD in Computer Science) to production engineering, giving him a rare blend of formal systems knowledge and operational pragmatism. Based in Trondheim, he’s as comfortable optimizing cloud images and build farms as he is teaching or documenting complex workflows.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyMaster Economics and Social Sciences in Business Informatics (Magisterstudium), Master Economics and Social Sciences in Business Informatics (Magisterstudium) at University of Vienna, Vienna University of TechnologyBachelor Economics and Social Sciences in Business Informatics (Bakkalaureatsstudium), Bachelor Economics and Social Sciences in Business Informatics (Bakkalaureatsstudium) at University of ViennaExchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at Trinity College DublinNorwegian University of Science and Technology
German, English, Norwegian
Github Skills (19)
oracle-cloud10
docker10
mysql10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
oracle10
infrastructure-as-code10
oracle-cloud-infrastructure10
apidoc9
database-administration9
inspec9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mysql/mysql-docker
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
Dockerfiles and scripts for MySQL products
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer/Administrator
DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer/AdministratorContributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 60 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on improving the Docker images for MySQL products. They addressed bugs related to environment variable handling for user creation and root password management. Additionally, they streamlined the build process by introducing a VERSION file and refactoring build scripts. The user also added InSpec tests to validate the Docker image configurations.
mariadbdockerfilesmysqldocker
hashicorp/packer
Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 14 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builder within the Packer project. Their work included adding functionality for private IP usage and instance metadata configuration. The user also implemented retry strategies for API calls, improving the robustness of the OCI integration, and incorporated support for tags and defined tags. They also addressed code style issues and enhanced logging messages.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
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