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Bio:
My name is Michael Schmid, but everybody calls me “Schnitzel”. You may know me from DrupalCon as the long-haired guy yelling directions to you from behind the camera for the official group photo. I'm Group CTO and Board member of Amazee.
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Drupal Contributions:
- Co-Initiator of TMGMT (Translation Management Tools)
- Member of Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative
- Multiple commits to Drupal Core and Contrib Modules
- Video of Tour de Drupal DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014
- DrupalCon Prague 2013 Group Photo Time Lapse
Organization and Planning:
- Drupal Commerce Camp 2011: Co-Organizer
- DrupalCon Prague 2013: Official Group Picture
- DrupalCon Prague 2013: Scholarship selection
- DrupalCamp Vienna 2013: Official Group Picture
- Global Sprint Weekend Zurich 2014
- DrupalCon Austin 2014: Official Group Picture
- DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014: Track Chair for Site Building and Case Studies
- DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014: Organized and hosted Lightning Talks
- DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014: Official Group Picture
- DrupalCon Barcelona 2015: Track Chair for Site Building
- DrupalCon Barcelona 2015: Official Group Picture
- Global Sprint Weekend Zurich 2015
- Global Sprint Weekend Zurich 2016
- 2012 - 2016: Multiple Drupal User Groups in Zurich
Speaking - Keynotes:
- DrupalCon New Orleans 2016: Your brain health is more important than your standing desk
- Drupal IronCamp 2016: The Future of Drupal and the Web
- DrupalCamp Cape Town 2016: The Future of Drupal and the Web
- DrupalCamp TelAviv 2016: The Future of Drupal and the Web
- DrupalSouth 2017: The Future of Drupal
Speaking - Sessions:
- Drupal Commerce Camp 2011: Fundraising & Donations with Drupal Commerce
- Drupal Dev Days Barcelona 2012: High Availability and High Performance Hosting for Drupal
- DrupalCon Munich 2012: Development Best Practices - Development approaches that work (Panel)
- BadCamp 2012: High Availability and High Performance Hosting for Drupal
- DrupalCon Portland 2013: The Voice of Switzerland: How to handle 5000 visits per second
- DrupalCon Prague 2013: Translation Management
- DrupalCon Prague 2013: How to provide a real-time second screen experience with Drupal
- BADCamp 2013: Why you need more than one Server for running a big and fast Drupal Site
- BADCamp 2013: Drupal 8 Multilingual Awesomeness!
- DrupalCamp Vienna 2013: Translation Management
- DrupalCon Austin 2014: Building a full site in Drupal 8 Alpha
- DrupalCon Austin 2014: Drupal 8 core is more multilingual than Drupal 7 with all of contrib
- DrupalCamp Donetsk 2014: Translation Management
- Drupal Dev Days Szeged 2014: Get ready for full translated Sites with Entity Translation
- Drupalhagen 2014: Multilingual in Drupal 8
- DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014: Drupal 8 Contrib Module Update (Moderator)
- DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014: Keynote Lightning Talks (Host)
- DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Learnings from our launched Drupal 8 Core customer projects
- DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: SecondScreen for a national TV show with realtime pushes and crazy traffic
- DrupalCamp Skopje 2015: Why Drupal 8? Why now? PS - Drupal 7 is still awesome
- DrupalCamp Skopje 2015: Keynote: Drupal 8 Deep Dive
- DrupalCamp CS 2015: Drupal Multilingual best practices
- Drupal User Group Austin 2015: Our experience with building Drupal 8 Sites in Alpha and Beta
- DrupalCon Barcelona 2015: Our experience with building Drupal 8 Sites in Alpha and Beta
- DrupalCon Barcelona 2015: Avoiding and surviving of contribution burnout
- DrupalCon Barcelona 2015: AMA: Drupal Shops Explain How They Do It (Moderator)
- Drupal Dev Days Montpellier 2015: Drupal Multilingual best practices
- DrupalCamp Oslo 2015: Drupal 8 Deeper Dive
- Drupal User Group Cape Town 2015: Drupal 8
- StartupCamp Switzerland 2016: 5 Years CTO
- DrupalCamp London 2016: CTO/Business Owner of a Drupal Company: What I would have done differently
- Drupal User Group Cape Town 2016: Drupal 8.1.0
- Drupal User Group Austin 2016: Docker Local Drupal Development
- DrupalCamp Munich 2016: From a service company to a product company - the story behind amazee.io
- DrupalCamp Munich 2016: Decoupled Drupal: Yea! But how?
- Drupal Mountaincamp 2017: Docker 101
- DrupalCon Baltimore 2017: This is not a test: What you should know about containers
- DrupalCon Baltimore 2017: A look into a possible Future for all of us: React, GraphQL and Drupal
- DrupalCon Vienna 2017: How to go from one to seven companies around the world and how to run them
- BadCamp 2017: A look into a possible Future for all of us: React, GraphQL and Drupal
- BadCamp 2017: Lagoon: OpenSource Docker Build & Deployment System with Full Drupal Support
Trainings:
- DrupalCon Austin 2014: Drupal 8 for Drupalistas
- DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014: Drupal 8 for Drupalistas
- DrupalCon Vienna 2017: Local Docker Development for Drupal
Webinars & Podcasts
- AcquiaTV 2012: Responsive Web Design with Drupal and the Omega Theme
- AcquiaTV 2013: Responsive Web Design für Mobilgeräte mit Drupal
- AcquiaTV 2014: Drupal 8 means better business
- Drupalize.Me 2014: DrupalCon Amsterdam Session Selection
- Drupalize.Me 2014: Demystifying the Sprint
Events volunteered at
Events spoken at
Areas of Expertise:
Strategic Management
Project Management
Leadership
High Performance
module development
Sitebuilding
Frontend
Drupal 8
presenting
Drupal Hosting
Drupal events:
DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
DrupalCon Chicago 2011
DrupalCon London 2011
DrupalCon Denver 2012
DrupalCon Munich 2012
DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon Prague 2013
DrupalCon Austin 2014
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014
DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
DrupalCon Barcelona 2015
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Dublin 2016
DrupalCon Baltimore 2017
DrupalCon Vienna 2017
DrupalCon Nashville 2018
Drupal Europe 2018
DrupalCon Seattle 2019
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019
DrupalCon Minneapolis 2020 (was planning to attend)
DrupalCon Global 2020
DrupalCon Europe 2020
DrupalCon North America 2021
DrupalCon Europe 2021
DrupalCon Portland 2022
DrupalCon Prague 2022
DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023
DrupalCon Lille 2023
Credited on 1 security advisory
Credited on 26 fixed issues
- DrupalCon Europe, 1 issue
- Drupal GovCon, 1 issue
- Automatic Updates, 1 issue
- Drupal core, 10 issues
- DrupalSouth, 1 issue
- DrupalCon North America 2021, 1 issue
- LoginToboggan, 1 issue
- Talking Drupal Podcast, 1 issue
- DrupalNYC, 1 issue
- DrupalCon Global 2020, 2 issues
- Drupal Developer Days , 1 issue
- Bay Area Drupal Camp, 3 issues
- Internationalization, 1 issue
- DrupalCI: Test Runner, 1 issue
Projects maintained
Schnitzel helps support and grow the Drupal community with the Drupal Association.
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