Overview

My name is Frank Schröder, and I am a distributed systems engineer with extensive experience in designing and building large-scale systems across various industries.

Professional Highlights

  • Northvolt: Developed a Data Collection Platform for industrial applications in battery manufacturing.
  • HashiCorp: Maintained Consul, a service discovery and configuration tool.
  • eBay: Led microservices development, team management, hiring, and authored fabio, a zero-conf HTTP/TCP reverse proxy.
  • SharpMind: Managed datacenter setup, provisioning, containers, and microservices.
  • Webraska/AirFlash: Worked on location-based services.
  • Netscape Professional Services: Designed and implemented email and web-hosting systems.

Open-Source Contributions

I am the author and active maintainer of several open-source tools:

  • gopcua: A pure Go OPC/UA client and server library for industrial applications.
  • properties: A properties library for Go.

I am also the original author of:

  • fabio: A Consul-aware load balancer and HTTP/TCP reverse proxy (Website), now maintained by another contributor.

Contact

Visit the contact page to get in touch with me.