Robert Steiner
Senior DevOps Engineer at Noxtua
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRobert Steiner is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and developer workflows. He blends hands-on Rust and Python development with DevOps expertise, having transitioned from a Rust-focused role at Xayn to engineering and deployment work at Flower Labs before moving into senior DevOps at Noxtua. Robert has practical open-source experience improving developer UX and CI/CD for the federated AI framework Flower, including stabilizing devcontainers and automating nightly Docker releases. He is skilled at turning flaky contributor environments into reproducible setups and streamlining release automation for complex projects. Trained in applied computer science at HTW Berlin, he favors pragmatic solutions that reduce onboarding friction and accelerate shipping. Outside core responsibilities he tends to focus on developer experience improvements that quietly multiply team productivity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Angewandte Informatik at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
Github Skills (11)
github-ci10
docker10
githubaction-workflow10
dockers10
cicd10
documentation9
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
bash8
python8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adap/flower
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Flower: A Friendly Federated AI Framework
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:192 reviews, 161 PRs, 661 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily focused on improving the development and deployment workflows for the Flower framework. They fixed issues with the devcontainer setup, ensuring consistent development environments for contributors. The user also addressed problems with documentation links, made the copyright year dynamic in the documentation, and added a guide for building Docker images locally. Moreover, they were responsible for integrating and automating nightly builds and releases of Docker images.
federated-analyticsfederated-learning-frameworkmachine-learningkeras-federated-learningflower
xainag/xain-sdk
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
The library which allows Participants or Clients to interact with the XAIN Platform
Contributions:50 PRs, 115 pushes, 55 branches in 7 months
clientsinteractparticipants
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