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.