Steffen Schmitz
Software Engineer at Langfuse (YC W23)
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSteffen Schmitz is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building cloud-native, reliable systems and leading engineering teams from startup to scale. He co-founded TransparentShare, architecting its Golang backend and Kubernetes deployments, and has driven SRE and data platform initiatives at companies like Y42 and Scalable Capital, including SOC2 Type 2 work and service-mesh zero-trust deployments. Currently at Langfuse (YC W23) and with a recent senior role at ClickHouse, he focuses on LLM engineering platforms and high-performance data systems. Steffen combines hands-on implementation with organizational design—reducing onboarding time via product/engineering handbooks and structuring teams around product domains to improve ownership. Based in Berlin, he pairs an MS in Business Informatics with a track record of translating complex requirements into pragmatic, observable, and secure production services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Business Informatics, Master of Science - MS, Business Informatics at University of MannheimBachelor of Science - BS, Business Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Information Technology at DHBW Mannheim
English, German
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Github Skills (200)
python10
windows10
nextra10
bash10
terraform10
prompt-engineering10
automation10
deep-learning10
opentelemetry10
llama-index10
monitoring10
unix10
pandas10
linux10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Steffen911/WDI-Project
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Project Resources for IE 683 Web Data Integration Project
Contributions:46 PRs, 65 pushes, 54 branches in 1 month
data-integrationweb-data
langfuse/langfuse-terraform-aws
Mar 2025 - Apr 2026
🪢 Terraform module to deploy Langfuse on AWS
Contributions:8 reviews, 13 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 1 month
awsterraform-module
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