Thomas Schubart Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Germany

Remote

• Championed continuous quality improvements across Gitpod's Enterprise offering, reducing installation time for PoVs (Proof of Value) by 80%• Led the development of Gitpod's Kubernetes operators that power its SaaS offerings and are responsible for managing the lifecycle of all Gitpod workspaces. Provided technical leadership and was the main contributor for the project from initial design, milestone planning, implementation, testing and release into production. The project was completed on time with a 35% reduction in lines of code compared to the previous approach. Reliability was improved from 99.9% to 99.99% while maintaining or exceeding performance goals• Mentored two software engineers, fostering their professional growth• Took the initiative to enhance the ability to troubleshoot customer performance issues by implementing scraping of Pressure Stall Information (PSI)• Participated in on-call rotation, successfully leading the resolution of numerous incidents • Collaborated closely with sales and solution engineers, conducting support calls with customers to resolve issues and ensure successful Proof of Value implementations. Supported hackathons on customer sites and served as the engineering DRI (directly responsible individual) for the company's largest contract• Initiated and led discussions with sales to identify key features that would drive sales growth. Successfully integrated these features into the team's roadmap

• Spearheaded the implementation of workspace classes across two teams, enabling customers to select differently sized workspaces• Started initiative to implement DDoS protection that reduced on-call alerts by 34%• Developed a prototype demonstrating a 5x improvement in networking performance in Gitpod workspaces and provided advisory support during product implementation• Participated in On-Call rotation, successfully leading the resolution of numerous incidents• Represented Gitpod at KubeCon Valencia, engaging with attendees and showcasing our product

• Lead engineer for a Kubernetes-based framework for running containerized workloads on the edge• Introduced continuous delivery approach using GitOps with Flux• Implemented cloud-based monitoring and administration of on premise Kubernetes clusters• Designed and implemented an agent for sending MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner data to the cloud

Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

• Sole maintainer for a critical component for the classification of medical image data • Used multi-threading and performance optimization techniques to speed up processing performance by up to 40%• Created a comprehensive automated test suite that significantly reduced the number of regressions• Redesigned and refactored components to reduce tech debt and improve debuggability of the system

Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

• Development of a large (25 million LOC) application for the quality control and post-processing of MR (magnetic resonance) images• Integration of medical imaging algorithms• Improved the process for integration of third-party deliveries from two days to one hour

Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

• Built and administered a test farm a test farm for performance and load tests of a complex medical image application from scratch• Developed tools for the automated installation of test systems and the distributed execution of tests• Initiated and developed a web-based tool for the tracking and analysis of exceptions during test runs that was adopted by two business units