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.