Hans-gunther Schmidt
Senior Director Of Engineering at Meltwater
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolHans-gunther Schmidt is a Director of Software Engineering based in Berlin with 16 years of experience building high-throughput data ingestion and content platforms. He evolved from a polyglot backend engineer—working across Java, Scala, Go, Elixir and JavaScript—into a hands-on leader who now manages multiple engineering teams focused on AI-enabled crawling and fetching at Meltwater. Deeply pragmatic and a Unix-shell enthusiast, he combines DevOps, stream processing and API design expertise to deliver scalable, production-grade systems. His background includes mobile and API startups, founding a backend-as-a-service, and long-running production experience with Kubernetes, Docker and AWS. Known for empowering engineers and shipping pragmatic architectures, he still prefers solving everyday problems with simple shell commands.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker FR Systemintegration (System integration's consultant), Computer Engineering, Fachinformatiker FR Systemintegration (System integration's consultant), Computer Engineering at ATIW-Berufskolleg PaderbornDiplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (33)
asynchronous-javascript8
homebrew6
emacs6
gruntjs6
ruby6
intellij-idea6
toolbox6
docker4
docker-container4
health4
zsh4
database3
obsolete3
electron3
windows3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
otype/emacs.d
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Emacs configuration files
Contributions:2 releases, 116 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 8 months
emacsemacs-configurationemacs-customizations
otype/shell
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
My ZSH configuration
Contributions:3 releases, 55 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 3 months
zsh
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