Viktor Schmidt
Senior Staff Engineer at ablefy
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolViktor Schmidt is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web platforms, predominantly in Ruby on Rails, and a 15+ year background in software development. He blends deep backend and DevOps expertise—AWS, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD—with full-stack delivery including Flutter and GIS tooling (RGeo/PostGIS), and has led teams of up to eight engineers. Viktor has moved between consulting, product, and freelance roles, shaping technical strategy and advocating for modern architectures while also teaching web development at HTW Berlin. Notably, his early work on large-scale data and Hadoop ecosystems and his military systems experience underpin a pragmatic approach to reliability and operations. He’s known for converting complex requirements into robust, automated deployments and for mentoring teams to adopt sustainable engineering practices.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
IT Systems Electronics Engineer Professional Training as IT Systems Electronics Engineer, IT Systems Electronics Engineer Professional Training as IT Systems Electronics Engineer at Bundeswehr Wir. Dienen. Deutschland.Realschule General Studies, Realschule General Studies at Vincent-van-Gogh-Schule (Realschule)Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied computer science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied computer science at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft BerlinVisual Basic and PC hardware support Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Visual Basic and PC hardware support Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Berufsförderungsdienst der Bundeswehr
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (200)
devise10
eager-loading10
authentication10
mvc10
stimulusjs10
hotwire10
docker-desktop10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
docker-compose10
eager10
turbo10
html10
downtime10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
viktorianer/verinice
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:131 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 1 month
securitysecurity-toolsinformation-security
viktorianer/rails-community-app
Apr 2017 - Oct 2022
Small app to manage community.
Contributions:21 reviews, 55 PRs, 233 pushes in 5 years 6 months
groupsruby-on-railsrailschatruby
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