Alex Baum
Development Architect at Surfrider Foundation Baden-Pfalz
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAlex Baum is a Development Architect at SAP with a decade of experience building reliable, testable software and improving developer workflows. Based in Mannheim, he progressed from Business Information Technology student to Development Expert and now architect, focusing on code quality, CI/CD robustness, and pragmatic tooling. His open-source contributions include refining SAP tutorial testing and link-checking to improve documentation accuracy and pipeline stability—small infrastructure changes that reduce friction for many users. Outside work he blends a passion for sports and video analysis with community volunteering, bringing analytical rigor and team-mindedness to both engineering and grassroots projects.
11 years of coding experience
B. Sc. Software Engineering, B. Sc. Software Engineering at DHBW MannheimA-Levels, A-Levels at Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium Kaiserslautern
German, English
Github Skills (9)
test-framework10
javascript10
cicd9
error-handling9
nodejs9
markdown-it8
markdown8
documentation8
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sap-tutorials/Tutorials
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Tutorials on sap.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 14 pushes in 26 days
Contributions summary:Alex's primary contributions focused on improving the tutorial testing framework and addressing code quality concerns. They added a flag to disable the progress bar for easier testing, and implemented error handling to ensure CI/CD pipeline stability. They also refined the link checker to show line numbers for dead links and fixed issues related to .exe file link detection, demonstrating a focus on enhancing testing and documentation accuracy.
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4lexBaum/react-testing
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 74 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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