Alexander Farber
Senior Software Developer at Volkswagen Infotainment
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Farber is a Senior Software Developer with 14 years of experience building embedded systems and cloud-native microservices, currently developing Service Fabric and Kubernetes solutions in Microsoft Azure for Volkswagen Infotainment. He combines a deep systems background—from Yocto Linux and MQTT components on ECUs to Java/C++ mobile stacks—with modern C#, Python, PowerShell and DevOps pipelines, and has led small distributed teams across continents. Comfortable across toolchains and platforms, he also brings long-standing operations and tooling experience from roles at Nokia and earlier telecoms, giving him a pragmatic perspective on reliability and build infrastructure. Outside code he’s engaged with literature, theatre and visual arts, a creative bent that informs his preference for clean, readable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Final grade: 5 (best note), Final grade: 5 (best note) at Distance learning school at the Phys.-Tech. Institute in MoscowPhysics, Physics at Latvijas Universitate40. vidusskola, RigaDiplom, EE, Diplom, EE at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
English, Russian, German, Latvian
Stackoverflow
22,403reputation
4.4mreached
430answers
633questions
android
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google-visualization
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java
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apache-flex
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database
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Github Skills (187)
canvas2d10
traveling-salesman10
stackoverflow10
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navigation-drawer10
protoc10
http-client10
rendering-engine10
eclipse10
cpp10
backend10
osrm10
openstreetmap10
javascript10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
afarber/android-questions
Sep 2014 - May 2022
Small projects for asking at Stackoverflow
Contributions:393 commits, 1 PR, 335 pushes in 7 years 9 months
kotlinnirvanaandroidjavastackoverflow
afarber/pixi-questions
Apr 2025 - Feb 2026
Contributions:233 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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