Thomas Hipp
Senior Software Developer at Nortal
Greater Nuremberg Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Hipp is a Senior Software Developer with 13 years of experience designing and maintaining production-grade backend systems, particularly in Go, and currently based in the Greater Nuremberg area. He has deep expertise in container and virtualization tooling as a core maintainer of distrobuilder and contributor to rkt and LXD, blending systems engineering, CI ownership, and DevOps practices. Thomas has repeatedly led technical efforts—from running CI for container teams to serving as a Go team technical lead—ensuring reliable releases and robust test coverage. His background spans low-level C/C++ and embedded Android work to cloud-native container platforms, giving him a rare full-spectrum perspective on system internals and delivery. Notably, he has contributed fixes and feature enhancements to well-known open-source container projects, demonstrating an ability to improve both correctness (e.g., overflow fixes) and usability (image handling and validation).
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Technische Hochschule Augsburg
English, German
Github Skills (10)
linux10
container10
occi10
lxc10
rkt10
go10
build-automation10
testing10
image9
system-design9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lxc/distrobuilder
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
System container image builder for LXC and Incus
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 85 reviews, 707 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to the `distrobuilder` repository, which involves system container image building for LXC and Incus. The commits focused on adding features like definition defaults, updates, and validation of definition files. Furthermore, the user added and tested new functionalities by modifying shared code and the main program to ensure functionalities.
containersoci-imagepodmandockerbuilder
rkt/rkt
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
[Project ended] rkt is a pod-native container engine for Linux. It is composable, secure, and built on standards.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 9 PRs, 19 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the rkt container engine project. Their work involved addressing integer overflow issues, improving image removal functionalities, and refactoring image handling processes. They also made updates to tests and documentation, and set up architecture support.
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