Nikolaus Schuetz
Principal Platform Engineer
I build the Kubernetes platforms, Terraform providers, and the CI/CD other engineers ship on — and contribute the results back upstream.
Deep in Terraform (authored & published a provider), Kubernetes/GitOps, and large-scale data systems (Spark, Flink, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow). I practice AI-augmented, issue-driven engineering — specs as reviewable tickets, returned as verified PRs.
Terraform provider for the GetStream chat API — published to the Terraform Registry.
Schema-driven client for the MLB Stats API — 20 endpoints, 100+ generated methods.
Fixes and tests merged into projects I rely on — each verified fails-before / passes-after, always with a regression test.
…and 30+ more across the CNCF, Python, Go, Rust, and JS/TS ecosystems —
including tests for git merge-base --is-ancestor merged into git core.
- Getting tests into git core
git merge-base --is-ancestor is used in scripts everywhere and had no tests. Here's what it took to add some — and what the git contribution process is actually like.