Volker Schmitz
DevOps Engineer at Qvest Digital AG
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolVolker Schmitz is a DevOps Engineer with over a decade of experience helping teams adopt Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices, currently based in Bonn and working at Qvest Digital AG. He specializes in bridging development and operations, quickly assessing projects to identify issues early and co-design pragmatic, cross-team solutions. His hands-on work includes back-end contributions to open-source tooling—such as enhancing htpasswd authentication support for a JWT login microservice—demonstrating attention to reliable auth workflows and test-driven improvements. Trained as a System Integrator, he treats DevOps as a mindset and process, not just a toolset, and focuses on sustainable, auditable infrastructure that supports continuous delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Fachinformatiker - Systemintegrator, Fachinformatiker - Systemintegrator at Heinrich-Hertz-Berufskolleg der Stadt Bonn
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Github Skills (13)
log-in10
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
login-page10
jwt10
testing10
keyword-argument6
python6
concurrency6
multithreading6
oauth5
caddy4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
qvest-digital/loginsrv
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
JWT login microservice with plugable backends such as OAuth2, Google, Github, htpasswd, osiam, ..
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 days
Contributions summary:Volker primarily contributed to the `htpasswd` authentication backend for the `loginsrv` microservice. They added features such as supporting multiple htpasswd files, appending config parameters, and implementing a file struct to check timestamps for reloading. Furthermore, the user added tests to validate the new features and implemented functionality for two authentication files. The commits also include improvements to code readability and handling of duplicate users.
google-oauth2authorizationhtpasswdplugableauthentication
tarent/training_docker
Jul 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 82 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
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