Frank Schröder

Stream, Amsterdam & Remote

• Built bare-metal CI system — 5x faster, 3x cheaper, hosted in Europe.
• Identified bottlenecks in existing Go unit testing approach and built a new test harness for 10,000 tests.
• Identified bottlenecks in existing deployment flow, designed new solution and migration path.
• Built new faster deployment tool for the existing codebase.
• Enhancing go-tool-cache with distributed caching, consistent hashing, and no single point of failure.
• Investigated Nomad for running workloads.

Northvolt, Stockholm

• Built Northvolt's first connected battery gateway system, deployed on hundreds of batteries, including hardware selection, software development, and 24x7 troubleshooting.
• Architected and implemented industrial data acquisition systems for thousands of machines, running on factory-floor k3s clusters.
• Developed and maintained a native open-source Go OPC/UA library, now widely used in factory systems.
• Grew the Edge Computing team from 3 to 12 members, mentoring junior developers and standardizing interview procedures across the software organization. Performed 300+ interviews.
• Led the design of Northvolt's next-generation MES system for large-scale battery manufacturing.
• Delivered live presentations to 100+ members of the digitalization department.

HashiCorp, Amsterdam

• Maintained Consul, stabilizing tests, builds, and startup times while eliminating race conditions and refactoring configurations.
• Developed go-discover, a cloud auto-discovery library, and became the #3 committer within six months.
• Continued development and maintenance of fabio, a consul-aware cloud load balancer.

Marktplaats/eBay, Amsterdam

• Transformed the pay-per-click advertisement system into a scalable SaaS platform, deployed in three countries.
• Grew the team from 3 to 15 senior developers, conducting 120+ interviews and optimizing team composition.
• Migrated Java/Scala microservices to Go, improving scalability and maintainability.
• Open-sourced fabio, a zero-conf HTTP(S) load balancer.

Enaikoon GmbH, Berlin

• Designed and developed a geo-tracking system with a fully asynchronous, stateless architecture using JavaScript and Java.

Creolink, Yaoundé, Cameroon

• Planned and installed a virtualization solution using VMware ESXi 4.x, reducing maintenance and operational costs.

Ministry of Environmental Protection/CIDE, Yaoundé, Cameroon

• Set up and configured a web server and training environment using Ubuntu Linux and KVM virtualization.
• Developed and delivered hands-on training courses for three administrators.

SharpMind, Frankfurt, Germany

• Led development of scalable server-based applications, including navigation servers, product registration systems, and game servers.
• Managed 24x7 hosting infrastructure with 50 physical and 150 virtual servers.

AirFlash/Webraska, Frankfurt, Germany

• Designed scalable proximity search algorithms, achieving a 20x improvement in response times.
• Migrated build processes from make to ant, reducing build times from 5 minutes to 15 seconds.

CSC Ploenzke AG, Frankfurt, Germany

• Architected and reviewed the portal architecture for a bank's news platform.
• Designed and implemented data input drivers for managing content feeds.
• Managed a team of developers to deliver data import modules.
• Set up independent internet access for 15 consultants.

Netscape, Munich, Germany

• Designed and implemented large-scale automated web-hosting and email systems.
• Developed user interface frameworks using server-side JavaScript and LDAP.
• Installed and configured Netscape server software on scalable Solaris systems.
• Delivered training to 3rd-party support staff for Netscape's customers.

Germany

• Conducted code reviews and trained developers in C++ and software development.
• Managed a small development team for multimedia system projects.
• Designed and implemented a multimedia system for US Forces housing areas in Germany.
• Developed several shareware programs, including StickyNotes for Windows 95.

University of Saarbrücken, Germany