Jonas Pfannschmidt

Specialities: Python, Java, Linux, Cloud, Web, DevOps, Blockchain

http://www.jonaspfannschmidt.com

About Me

I have more than 10 years of professional experience in software development. Over these years I worked in different roles. As business analyst, architect, technical lead, project manager, tester, support and of course developer I have experienced every aspect of the software development life-cycle.

Corporate Experience

Since 01/2018

Principal Blockchain Engineer at Blockdaemon

10/2011 - 12/2017

Software developer and Consultant at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Galway, Ireland)

Started the blockchain initiative within the HPE cloud innovation team which grew into a center of technical expertise for blockchain. Among other things we:
- Built an Ethereum based rental platform for cleaning robots which gets demoed at HPE conferences and tradeshows.
- Advise customers on blockchain related topics.
- Are the primary technical contact within HPE for blockchain related topics.
- Started the Catena - Blockchain as a Service project (see below in section “Open Source”).
Technical lead in multiple software projects in which we developed customer specific modifications to Helion OpenStack and Helion Stackato. Technologies: OpenStack, Python, CloudFoundry
Advised customers around the topics cloud, cloud native development, scalability, CI/CD.
Designed, implemented and maintained tools and processes to assist with Software Asset Management. Technologies: Java, C#/.net, Sql Server, HP Asset Manager.

07/2009 - 09/2011

IT Consultant at CSC Deutschland Solutions GmbH (Munich, Germany)

Implemented customer specific modifications to a payment transaction system for banks.
Designed and implemented a cheque management system based on SEPA V5.
Implemented an insurance sales platform based on iPos/PosX, an in-house framework built on Eclipse RCP and OSGI.
Technologies: Java, Spring, Wicket, Lucene, Smalltalk, DB2

01/2006 - 08/2007

Software developer / Architect at Schwarzmeier Mediengesellschaft LTD (Munich, Germany)

Designed, implemented and maintained various web portals. E.g. guide-to-bavaria, a real-estate portal among others with HTML, Javascript, PHP and MySql.

10/2004 - 12/2005

Software developer at Aescon med GmbH (Tübingen, Germany), part-time

Implemented a web application to create and answer multiple choice questionnaires with HTML, PHP and MySql.

Open Source

Catena: Technical lead and project founder of Catena Blockchain as a Service , a simple way to deploy, maintain and work with blockchains on clouds.
Cpmerge: Author of cpmerge, a clipboard manager for linux that merges primary selection and clipboard in an innovative way.
Freezer: Contributor and former core developer of Freezer, a backup and disaster recovery tool for OpenStack. Mainly involved in the initial design and the web ui.
Testing: Author of some experimental test tools using OCR and comparing screenshots to detect visual regressions.
Misc: Bug fixes, Editor plugins, GameJam contributions and more.

Talks

Ethereum: An Introduction to Tools, Solidity & Smart Contracts delivered at the Galway Blockchain Meetup group.
Blockchain: Blockchain Introduction presented as part of the in-company events at Atlantec.
Python: Talks about HTTP Requests and Magic Methods presented as part of a weekly internal training and knowledge exchange that I organized in HPE.

Education

09/2007 - 07/2009: Apprenticeship as IT Specialist at CSC Deutschland Solutions GmbH (Munich, Germany)

Certification

07/11/2017: B9Lab Certified Ethereum Developer
19/02/2016: EXIN Foundation Certificate in OpenStack Software

jonas.pfannschmidt@gmail.com • +353 85 2811165 • Geeha South, Kinvara, Co. Galway, Ireland