Alexander Lanin
Software Engineer at Bosch
Pattensen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Lanin is a versatile software engineer with over a decade of experience at Bosch, spanning hands-on development, product ownership, requirements management, and safety-critical projects. He blends deep C++ and backend expertise with DevOps and QA automation sensibilities, having modernized and improved build and CI pipelines for notable open-source tools like icecream and ccache. Comfortable across the software lifecycle—from prototyping to safety-driven delivery—he focuses on code quality, testability, and maintainability. Now targeting staff-level, remote-first roles, he brings a pragmatic systems perspective and a track record of refactoring legacy codebases to modern standards. An understated strength is his ability to translate product and safety requirements into clean, testable implementations that scale.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik at Leibniz Universität Hannover
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (29)
unit-testing10
c-language10
clang-tidy10
github10
cmake10
refactor10
cicd10
dotnet-core10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
csharp10
test-automation10
compiler-development9
authentication9
git9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ccache/ccache
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
ccache – a fast compiler cache
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:64 reviews, 45 commits, 74 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the project by implementing various improvements and refactoring code. Their work involved simplifying code logic within the `Util` class. They also enabled code formatting and static analysis checks via clang-tidy within the CI pipeline. Furthermore, the user made several preparations for CMake, including Docker image configuration and build process improvements.
cppccacheclangc-plus-pluscompiler
git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Secure, cross-platform Git credential storage with authentication to GitHub, Azure Repos, and other popular Git hosting services.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on refactoring and expanding the test suite for the `git-credential-manager` repository. Their contributions involved adding new test cases to `GitHubHostProviderTests.cs`, targeting functions such as `IsSupported`, `GetCredentialServiceUrl`, and `GetSupportedAuthenticationModes`. The refactoring efforts aimed to simplify the process of adding more tests, indicating a focus on improving the test coverage and maintainability of the project. Additionally, the user introduced test cases to validate behavior when specific domain names were entered.
hostingazure-repossecureauthenticationaad
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