Alexander Furer
Senior Software Engineer at Philips
Israel
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Furer is a senior software engineer based in Israel with 12 years of professional experience building backend systems for enterprise and telecom customers. He has held senior and leadership engineering roles at Philips, LogNet Systems, HCL Technologies and others, bringing deep expertise in building production-grade services and integrations. Alexander contributes to open-source, notably improving a gRPC Spring Boot starter by adding service registration and Spring Security integration with JWT, highlighting a focus on secure, scalable microservice patterns. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge legacy telecom systems and modern cloud-native stacks. He combines long-term hands-on development with an emphasis on authentication/authorization and developer-friendly integrations.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
spring10
spring-security10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
jwt10
grpc10
protocol-buffers9
automations8
automation8
automation-testing8
testing7
database6
hibernate6
gson6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
LogNet/grpc-spring-boot-starter
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
Spring Boot starter module for gRPC framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 releases, 16 reviews, 96 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the gRPC Spring Boot starter. Their work involved implementing gRPC service registration, including discovering and binding services using annotations. They also integrated Spring Security, adding authentication and authorization features with JWT support. Additionally, the user made minor documentation and test improvements.
grpcspringgrpc-servicespring-bootspring-cloud
jvmlet/protoJPA
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 1 month
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