Torsten Schmits
Zertifizierter SAP Security Consultant Teamleiter Projektleiter at mindsquare AG
Barßel, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolTorsten Schmits is a certified SAP Security Consultant and team leader with 12 years of experience translating security requirements into actionable SAP projects for clients while also managing teams and delivery at mindsquare AG. He combines deep SAP domain expertise with a strong computer science background (MSc, BSc from Universität Bremen) and hands-on engineering skills honed through open-source contributions. His work spans backend and tooling improvements—from performance fixes in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler to enhancements in Scala/Android build tooling and a Vim-like Firefox extension—demonstrating a knack for optimizing performance and developer experience. As a project lead he balances technical problem-solving with people leadership, shipping pragmatic, auditable security solutions. An uncommon detail: he has contributed to core compiler internals (GHC) to resolve a quadratic-performance bug, showing comfort with low-level, high-impact optimizations uncommon for typical SAP specialists.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik, 1,9, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik, 1,9 at Universität Bremen
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
lib10
testing10
sbt10
android-sdk10
codegen10
java10
scala10
javas10
performance-analysis10
android10
bytecode10
build-automation10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
polysemy-research/polysemy
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
:gemini: higher-order, no-boilerplate monads
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 83 reviews, 60 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Torsten primarily contributed to the development of the `polysemy` library, focusing on adding new combinators like `raise2Under` and `raise3Under` and providing support for the `Scoped` effect. The contributions also include refactoring internal modules, fixing pragmas and making cabal updates to support new features and improvements within the library. Further contributions include adding missing exports, and improving documentation.
boilerplategeminimonadsno-boilerplatenodejs
scala-android/sbt-android
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
An easy-to-use sbt plugin for working with all Android projects
Role in this project:Android Developer
Android DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Torsten focused on enhancing the `sbt-android` plugin by implementing and refining instrumentation tests. They added a test-only implementation for instrumentation tests and integrated the `testOnlyTaskDef` within the build process. Further improvements included changes related to dependencies, specifically altering project dependencies to use `ProjectReference` and addressing the handling of library projects to ensure correct resource collection. Additional changes were also made to the process of filtering duplicate dependencies.
androidsbt-pluginscalasbtandroid-projects
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