Robert Schweikert
SUSE- Distinguished Architect
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Schweikert is a distinguished architect at SUSE with 14+ years of experience designing cloud-ready application architectures, image and package build systems, and resilient update infrastructures across AWS, GCP, and Azure. He blends low-level systems expertise in C/C++ and Fortran with scripting and automation in Python and Perl, driving portability and maintainability for public cloud offerings. At SUSE he leads public cloud engineering, shepherding SUSE products into partner clouds and contributing upstream to projects like cloud-init and the Azure Linux Agent to improve real-world compatibility. His open-source contributions show a pragmatic focus on robustness and automation—creating systemd services, package tooling, and distro-specific fixes that reduce operational friction. Previously he led integration efforts with IBM and built foundational infrastructure at The MathWorks and Dassault, bringing a hardware-aware engineering perspective from an earlier mechanical engineering career. Based in Asheville, NC, he combines deep systems craftsmanship with a long track record of cross-cloud interoperability and operational hardening.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Mechanical Engineering, MS, Mechanical Engineering at University of North Carolina at CharlotteMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of Rhode IslandBS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen
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Github Skills (32)
zypper10
python10
cloud-init10
rdma10
image10
suse10
configuration-management10
linux10
networking10
gcp10
grub10
google-compute-engine10
devops10
cicd9
opensuse9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages
Sep 2013 - Jan 2018
Packages for Google Compute Engine Linux images.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:12 commits, 21 PRs, 29 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to improving the infrastructure and automation aspects of the project. Their work includes creating systemd service files, developing Python scripts for package management, and integrating with cloud services through Google Cloud Storage. They also focused on error handling and improving the robustness of the codebase by adding checks for external dependencies like gsutil and handling exceptions when interacting with the operating system's sudoers configuration.
google-compute-enginelinux
Azure/WALinuxAgent
Nov 2013 - Feb 2021
Microsoft Azure Linux Guest Agent
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 23 commits, 25 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Microsoft Azure Linux Guest Agent by implementing features related to RDMA driver handling, including installation, upgrades, and integration. They developed SUSE-specific implementations for RDMA, addressing package management and kernel module loading. Additionally, the user fixed bugs related to the loading of distribution information and made improvements to handle interrupts and ensure proper system behavior. Their work also included adjustments to hostname settings and handling of the disappearance of network tools.
linuxmicrosoft-azure
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