Robin Schneider
Software Engineer at senec
BW, Germany && Cipherspace, United States
Summary
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RockstarRobin Schneider is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in backend development, DevOps, and security for open-source infrastructure projects. Based between BW, Germany and the “Cipherspace,” he contributes to high-impact projects like borgbackup, OPNsense, NetBox, and Vaultwarden, often improving documentation, deployment reproducibility, and platform security. Robin’s work blends careful technical writing with hands-on code and CI/Docker improvements—helping projects ship clearer docs, cross-platform builds, and safer defaults. He has a track record of adding practical tooling (e.g., config validation, globbing support) and security features (SSH/X.509 fingerprinting) that improve auditability and operations. Passionate about software freedom, he combines attention to detail with infrastructure-level thinking to make systems more maintainable and secure. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to turn documentation fixes into subtle code changes that prevent user errors and improve long-term project health.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (68)
python10
testing10
http10
firewall10
templater10
file-operations10
wireguard10
security10
backup10
build-automation10
dockerfile10
ansible-galaxy10
ssh10
django10
linux10
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
debops/debops
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
DebOps - Your Debian-based data center in a box
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:104 reviews, 1473 commits, 125 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the DebOps infrastructure project. They fixed typos, refactored code for better readability, updated documentation, and added support for handling various scenarios related to the system. The user also implemented automatic firewall configuration based on ports and helped with integrating services such as EteSync.
data-centerdebian-basedansibledebianubuntu
borgmatic-collective/borgmatic
Jan 2016 - May 2019
Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 11 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the borgmatic project. Their work focused on improving the handling of source directories, implementing globbing support for flexible file selection, and addressing space-related issues in configuration parsing. They also added a new command, `validate-borgmatic-config`, enabling configuration validation. This included modifying existing code and adding unit tests to ensure proper functionality.
borgpythonserversbackuprestore
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