Summary
Stefan Schmidt is a Senior Technical Team Lead based in Hamburg with a decade of experience building and guiding full-stack web applications across frontend, backend, and operations. At OTTO he progressed from developer to senior lead, blending hands-on engineering with team leadership and delivery ownership since 2013. Comfortable down to C code and low-level tooling, he pairs practical systems knowledge with modern web architectures and a strong affinity for Linux and open source. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he drives reliable, production-ready systems while mentoring engineers to ship maintainable software.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Wedel