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Simon Schmitt, Ph.D. / Cloud Engineer

You can download my cv as pdf here:    CV-Simon-Schmitt.pdf

Work

Principal Software Developer at Safety io

Focus

AI-Augmented Development,
Amazon Web Services (AWS),
JavaScript / nodeJs

Contact

Based in Berlin, Germany
    mail@simonschmitt.com
   LinkedIn


AI-Augmented Development

I design structured workflows that integrate AI into professional software engineering. My approach emphasizes explicit constraints and mandatory quality gates — transforming AI from an unpredictable assistant into a reliable development partner.


  • Hardcoded behavioral constraints
  • Specialized agent orchestration
  • Blocking quality gates
  • Issue-driven workflows
  • Custom AI tooling
  • Context-first retrieval
  • Parallel session architectures
  • Persistent learning mechanisms
  • Reproducible, auditable outputs

Expertise

Background in cloud engineering, distributed systems, and academic research. Combining practical industry experience with a scientific approach to problem-solving.


  • Serverless & Event-based Architecture
  • Dependable & Distributed Systems
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Location Systems & Indoor Navigation
  • Motion Planning & Coverage
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Agile Software Development
  • Process Improvement
  • Technical Interviewing

Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

Since 05 / 2023

Principal Software Developer ,
Safety io GmbH,
Enabling the team and company to build, maintain, and integrate products and cloud-based services while guiding the team through technical challenges.
Focusing on Amazon Web Services, Cloud-native Development, Microservice & Event-based Architecture.

05 / 2018 - 04 / 2023

Senior Software Developer ,
Safety io GmbH,
Focusing on Amazon Web Services, Cloud-native Development, Microservice & Event-based Architecture.

11 / 2013 - 04 / 2018

Research Assistant ,
AG Computer Systems & Telematics, Freie Universität Berlin,
Focusing on indoor localization using wireless sensor networks

04 / 2012 - 10 / 2013

Student Assistant ,
AG Computer Systems & Telematics, Freie Universität Berlin, Project VIVE

09 / 2011 - 03 / 2012

Software Architect ,
Zimmer Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Zimmer Gruppe,
Working on Smart Tools for enterprise information flow / processing, and enterprise mail assessment / rating

11 / 2010 - 08 / 2011

Working Student ,
Zimmer Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Zimmer Gruppe

Education

11 / 2013 - 11 / 2019

Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science , Freie Universität Berlin,
focusing on evaluation of indoor localization technologies,
Evaluation of distance-based indoor localization

10 / 2011 - 10 / 2013

Master's Degree in Computer Science , Freie Universität Berlin,
Focusing on Computer Systems & Telematics, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics,
Minor in Process and Quality Management, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

10 / 2008 - 02 / 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science , Freie Universität Berlin,
Minor in Mathematics


Teaching

Summer Term 2020
  • ProInformatik IV: Rechnerarchitektur, Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme , Online Course, Lecture, Management
Winter Term 2017/2018
  • Technische Informatik II: Rechnerarchitektur , Management
Summer Term 2017
  • Verteilte Systeme / Distributed Systems , Tutorial, Management
  • Technische Informatik III: Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme , Management
  • ProInformatik IV: Rechnerarchitektur, Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme , Lecture, Management
Winter Term 2016/2017
  • Technische Informatik II: Rechnerarchitektur , Management
  • Seminar Technische Informatik: Multi-Hop Indoor Lokalisierung , Lecture, Management, Content
    • Welche Herangehensweisen gibt es?
    • Welche Parameter haben Einfluss auf die Lokalisierung?
    • Welche technischen Lösungen werden wie angewandt?
    • Wie werden Simulationen durchgeführt?
    • Wie sehen Einsatzgebiete und deren speziellen Anforderungen aus?
    • Welche Arten von Multi-Hop Lokalisierungsalgorithmen gibt es?
    • Was sind bio-inspired Algorithmen?
    • Wie funktionieren confidence-based Algorithmen?
  • Softwareprojekt Technische Informatik , Content
    • Algorithmen zur Multi-Hop Indoor Lokalisierung
Summer Term 2016
  • Verteilte Systeme / Distributed Systems , Tutorial, Management
  • Technische Informatik III: Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme , Management
  • ProInformatik IV: Rechnerarchitektur, Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme , Lecture, Management
Winter Term 2015/2016
  • Technische Informatik II: Rechnerarchitektur , Management
  • Softwareprojekt Technische Informatik , Content
    • Collaborative Problem Solving (Sorting, Finding, Message Relay, ...) using Audio/Visual Communication between Mobile Robots
    • Robot Remote Control Interface using Skeleton Tracking and an Overlay Visualization
Summer Term 2015
  • Technische Informatik II , Management
  • Verteilte Systeme / Distributed Systems , Tutorial, Management
  • Softwareprojekt Technische Informatik , Content
    • Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping with mobile robots
    • Collaborative, delay tolerant network with smart positioning of mobile robots
    • Collaborative room coverage with mobile robots
  • Seminar Technische Informatik: Indoor Lokalisierung , Lecture, Management, Content
    • Wie stark werden Lokalisierungssysteme von ihrer Umgebung beeinflusst?
    • Wie genau können Lokalisierungssysteme überhaupt werden?
    • Ist eine Lokalisierung auch ohne zusätzliche Hardware an einer Person möglich?
    • Welche Methoden können die Genauigkeit von Lokalisierung verbessern?
    • Wie werden Sensoren kalibriert?
    • Womit kann Indoor- und Outdoor- Lokalisierung realisiert werden?
    • Wie kann ein Lokalisierungssystem validiert werden?
  • Proseminar Technische Informatik , Content
    • Smart Home durch IoT - Möglichkeiten und Ausblick
  • Wissenschaftskommunikation , Content
    • Dancing sorting algorithms with robots
  • ProInformatik IV: Rechnerarchitektur , Lecture, Management
Winter Term 2014/2015
  • Forschungspraktikum Indoor Lokalisierung , Lecture, Management, Content
    • Human Body Interference
    • Anchor Placement Inside
    • Anchor Placement Outside
    • Time/Temperature Influence
    • Spatial Range Error
    • Spatial Position Error
  • Zuverlässige Systeme / Dependable Systems , Tutorial, Management
Summer Term 2014
  • Technische Informatik II: Rechnerarchitektur , Management
  • Verteilte Systeme / Distributed Systems , Tutorial, Management
  • Seminar Technische Informatik , Content
    • Popular path loss models for the 2.4 GHz ISM band
  • Softwareprojekt Technische Informatik , Content
    • Path planning for room coverage
Winter Term 2013/2014
  • Telematik , Tutorial, Management

Theses

12 / 2019
Doctoral Thesis
Evaluation of distance-based indoor localization , Doctoral Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, December 2019
11 / 2013
Master Thesis
Aufbau und Evaluation eines virtuellen Testbeds zur Indoor Lokalisierung in drahtlosen Sensornetzwerken , Master Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, November 2013
01 / 2012
Bachelor Thesis
Design und Implementierung eines mobilen Referenzsystems für die Indoorlokalisierung unter Verwendung des Robot Operating Systems , Bachelor Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, January 2012

Peer-Reviewed Publications

09 / 2017 [DOI]
Proceedings
Simon Schmitt , Larissa Zech, Katinka Wolter, Thomas Willemsen, Harald Sternberg, and Marcel Kyas, Fast Routing Graph Extraction from Floor Plans , In proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2017, Sapporo, Japan
10 / 2016 [DOI]
Proceedings
Simon Schmitt , Larissa Zech, Thomas Willemsen, Harald Sternberg, and Marcel Kyas, Conditional Erosion to Estimate Routing Graph out of Floor Plans , In proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2016, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
10 / 2015 [DOI]
Proceedings
Stephan Adler, Simon Schmitt , Katinka Wolter, and Marcel Kyas, A Survey of Experimental Evaluation in Indoor Localization Research , In proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2015, Banff, Canada
06 / 2015 [DOI]
Proceedings
Filip Lemic, Vlado Handziski, Adam Wolisz, Timotheos Constambeys, Christos Laoudias, Stephan Adler, Simon Schmitt, and Yuan Yang, Experimental Evaluation of RF-based Indoor Localization Algorithms Under RF Interference , In proceedings, International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS), Gothenburg, Sweden
04 / 2015 [DOI]
Proceedings
Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Jie Liu, Xue Yang, Romit Roy Choudhury, Vlado Handziski, Souvik Sen, Filip Lemic, Jasper Buesch, Zhiping Jiang, Han Zou, Hao Jiang, Chi Zhang, Ashwin Ashok, Chenren Xu, Patrick Lazik, Niranjini Rajagopal, Anthony Rowe, Avik Ghose, Nasim Ahmed, Zhuoling Xiao, Hongkai Wen, Traian E. Abrudan, Andrew Markham, Thomas Schmid, Daniel Lee, Martin Klepal, Christian Beder, Maciej Nikodem, Szymon Szymczak, Pawel Hoffmann, Leo Selavo, Domenico Giustiniano, Vincent Lenders, Maurizio Rea, Andreas Marcaletti, Christos Laoudias, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Yu-Kuen Tsai, Arne Bestmann, Ronne Reimann, Liqun Li, Chunshui Zhao, Stephan Adler, Simon Schmitt, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Domenico Colucci, Pasquale Ambrosini, Andre Ferraz, Lucas Martins, Pedro Bello, Alan Alvino, Vladica Sark, Gerald Pirkl, and Peter Hevesi, A Realistic Evaluation and Comparison of Indoor Location Technologies: Experiences and Lessons Learned , In proceedings, 14th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Seattle, USA
11 / 2014 [DOI]
Proceedings
Stephan Adler , Simon Schmitt, and Marcel Kyas, Experimental Evaluation of the Spatial Error Distribution of Indoor Localization Algorithms , In proceedings, 2014 IEEE International Conference and Exhibition on Ubiquitous Positioning, Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services (UPINLBS), Corpus Christi, USA
10 / 2014 [DOI]
Proceedings
Simon Schmitt , Stephan Adler, and Marcel Kyas, The Effects of Human Body Shadowing in RF-based Indoor Localization , In proceedings, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Busan, Korea
10 / 2014 [DOI]
Proceedings
Stephan Adler, Simon Schmitt , Yuan Yang, Yubin Zhao, and Marcel Kyas, Experimental Evaluation of Indoor Localization Algorithms , In proceedings, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Busan, Korea
10 / 2014 [DOI]
Proceedings
Stephan Adler, Simon Schmitt, and Marcel Kyas , Device-Free Indoor Localisation Using Radio Tomography Imaging in 800/900 MHz Band , In proceedings, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Busan, Korea
03 / 2014 [DOI]
Proceedings
Stephan Adler , Simon Schmitt, and Marcel Kyas, Path Loss and Multipath Effects in a Real World Indoor Localization Scenario , Best Paper Award, In proceedings, 2014 IEEE Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC), Dresden, Germany
10 / 2013 [DOI]
Proceedings
Stephan Adler , Simon Schmitt, Heiko Will, Thomas Hillebrandt, and Marcel Kyas, Virtual Testbed for Indoor Localization , In proceedings, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Montbeliard, France
06 / 2013 [DOI]
Proceedings
Simon Schmitt , Heiko Will, Thomas Hillebrandt, and Marcel Kyas, A Virtual Indoor Localization Testbed for Wireless Sensor Networks , In proceedings, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), New Orleans, USA
11 / 2012 [DOI]
Proceedings
Simon Schmitt , Heiko Will, Benjamin Aschenbrenner, Thomas Hillebrandt, and Marcel Kyas, A Reference System for Indoor Localization Testbeds , In proceedings, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Sydney, Australia

Invited Talks

05 / 2016
Technical Presentation
Möglichkeiten, Sicherheit und Zukunft der Inhaus-Digitalisierung , Technical Presentation at Technologie Tag Teltow (TTT), Berlin, Germany, May 2016
10 / 2015
Keynote
A Survey of Experimental Evaluation in Indoor Localization Research , Keynote at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Banff, Canada, October 2015

Miscellaneous

10 / 2014
Technical Report
Filip Lemic, Vlado Handziski, Adam Wolisz, Timotheos Constambeys, Christos Laoudias, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Christos Panayiotou, Stephan Adler, Simon Schmitt, Heiko Will, Thomas Hillebrandt, Marcel Kyas, Yuan Yang, and Yubin Zhao, Systematic Objective Evaluation of RF-based Indoor Localization Algorithms (EVARILOS Open Challenge: Track 3) , TKN Technical Report Series, Telecommunication Networks Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
05 / 2014
Competition
Stephan Adler , Simon Schmitt , Heiko Will, Thomas Hillebrandt, and Marcel Kyas, Geo-n Localization and 3CoM (3 Centers of Mass) Indoor Localization Algorithms , Evaluation of RF-based Indoor Localization Algorithms, 2nd Place, EVARILOS Open Challenge 2014, Berlin, Germany
04 / 2014
Competition
Stephan Adler , Simon Schmitt , Yuan Yang , Yubin Zhao, and Marcel Kyas, FUBLoc - Accurate Range-based Indoor Localization and Tracking , Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition Award, 3rd Place (Infrastructure-based Approaches), 13th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Berlin, Germany
03 / 2014 [DOI]
Best Paper Award
Stephan Adler , Simon Schmitt, and Marcel Kyas, Path Loss and Multipath Effects in a Real World Indoor Localization Scenario , Best Paper Award, In proceedings, 2014 IEEE Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC), Dresden, Germany
06 / 2013
Demo
Simon Schmitt , Heiko Will, Thomas Hillebrandt, and Marcel Kyas, Demo: A Virtual Indoor Localization Testbed for Wireless Sensor Networks , 2013 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), New Orleans, USA
11 / 2012
Demo
Simon Schmitt , Heiko Will, Benjamin Aschenbrenner, Thomas Hillebrandt, and Marcel Kyas, Demo: A Reference System for Indoor Localization Testbeds , 2012 IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Sydney, Australia

Supervised Theses

12 / 2019
Bachelor Thesis
Design and implementation of a cloud-connected simulator for fire-fighting operations , Julia Assi , Bachelor Thesis, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
01 / 2018
Master Thesis
Verteilte Lokalisierung von Sensorknoten mittels Partikelschwarmoptimierung , Andy Wong , Master Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin
04 / 2017
Master Thesis
Evaluation of Pedestrian Dead Reckoning for Mobile Devices in various Scenarios , Norman Hein , Master Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin
07 / 2016
Master Thesis
Improving Indoor Localization by Non-Line-of-Sight Detection , Hanin Halawani , Master Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin
03 / 2016
Master Thesis
Abdeckung von Grundrissen durch kooperierende Roboter , Mateusz Sabadach , Master Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin
09 / 2016
Bachelor Thesis
Validierung und Erweiterung einer kollaborativen Frontier Exploration , Tim Freiheit , Bachelor Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin
06 / 2016
Master Thesis
Improving Indoor Localization by Non-Line-of-Sight Detection , undisclosed author , Master Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin
06 / 2016
Master Thesis
Design, Implementation, and Application of a Mobility Component for Wireless Sensor Testbeds , Jakob Pfender , Master Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin
05 / 2016
Bachelor Thesis
Entwicklung eines Pfadplanungsalgorithmus zur vollständigen Abdeckung mit mobilen Robotern , Larissa Zech, Bachelor Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin
05 / 2016
Bachelor Thesis
Positionsbestimmung und Verfolgung von Personen durch mobile Roboter , Niels Groth, Bachelor Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin
07 / 2014
Master Thesis
Verbesserung der Pfadplanung für ein Robotersystem des virtuellen Testbed Projektes , Carsten Dresske, Master Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, July 2014
05 / 2014
Diploma Thesis
Entwicklung und Evaluierung von Algorithmen zur pfadbasierten Messdatenausgabe , Oliver Kant, Diploma Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, May 2014
08 / 2013
Bachelor Thesis
Evaluierung und Integration einer Multi-Master Komponente in das Virtual Testbed , Frank Zechert, Bachelor Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, August 2013
08 / 2013
Bachelor Thesis
Entwurf und Implementierung einer Visualisierungs- und Datenbankschicht für das Virtual Testbed , Benjamin Makus, Bachelor Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, August 2013