Gabriel Schenker
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Vice President at iptiQ by Swiss Re
Appenzell, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland
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Top SchoolGabriel Schenker is a veteran software engineering leader and architect with over 30 years of hands-on experience building mission-critical, cloud-native platforms and driving developer productivity. Currently a Senior Software Engineering Manager and VP at iptiQ by Swiss Re, he leads test engineering, data engineering, DevOps and developer experience teams for a multi-tenant SaaS insurance platform. He pairs strategic vision with deep technical craft—specializing in real-time stream processing (Kafka), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD and event-driven architectures—while authoring curricula, books and video series that scale knowledge across organizations. A polyglot communicator fluent in five languages, Gabriel is a certified Kafka and Docker expert who consistently champions lean, friction-less delivery and continuous improvement. Notably, his background ranges from training and curriculum design at Confluent and Docker to hands-on platform modernization and Kubernetes migrations, blending pedagogy with production-grade architecture.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Physics, Master, Physics at ETH Zürich
German, English, French, Spanish, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
confluent-kafka10
kafka-connect10
kafka10
interactive10
sql10
ksqldb10
stream-processing10
kafka-streams9
sasl9
docker-container9
database9
confluent-platform9
apache-kafka9
docker8
connect8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/training-developer-src
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
Source Code accompanying the Confluent Kafka for Developers course
Contributions:4 releases, 145 commits, 86 PRs in 1 year
confluent-kafka
confluentinc/training-fundamentals-src
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
Source code accompanying the course "Apache Kafka Technical Essentials"
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 17 PRs in 9 months
apache-kafka
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