Sean Schneeweiß
Software Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Schneeweiß is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native Kubernetes platforms, now shaping vCluster's engineering direction from Ulm, Germany. He led large-scale multi-cluster and Cluster API initiatives at Mercedes‑Benz Tech Innovation, automating full cluster lifecycles across OpenStack and AWS and advising partner DevOps teams on cloud architecture and migrations. Sean brings strong backend and DevOps chops—contributing to the widely used cloud-provider-openstack project with load balancer, metrics and observability improvements—paired with a computational-science background (MSc) that informs pragmatic automation and testing. His career spans healthcare and engineering domains, from migrating legacy healthcare apps to cloud-native containers to developing motion-capture tools for biomechanical simulation, showing an unusual blend of enterprise-grade platform engineering and scientific software sophistication.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Universität UlmBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Fachhochschule Ulm - Hochschule für Technik
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
load-balancing10
go10
openstack10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-services10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
metric9
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/cloud-provider-openstack
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the OpenStack cloud provider for Kubernetes, focusing on load balancer functionalities within the `cloud-provider-openstack` repository. Their work involved fixing connection limits, updating listener configurations, and implementing metrics for API requests and load balancer reconciliations. They updated Kubernetes dependencies and improved logging for better observability. The user also addressed flavor lookups for instances, handling scenarios with flavor IDs and names.
k8s-sig-storagecsi-plugink8s-sig-cloud-providerkubernetesopenstack
seanschneeweiss/merge-intervals
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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