Alexander Mader
Security Engineer And Architect at Bosch Digital
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlexander Mader is a Security Engineer and Architect with 15 years of experience designing secure, pragmatic software for enterprise and research contexts, currently shaping security architecture at Bosch Digital. He holds a Dr.-Ing. in Computer Science and top-tier M.S. and B.Sc. degrees, blending rigorous academic research with hands-on engineering across startups, consultancy and academia. Alexander brings deep Python back-end experience—evidenced by contributions to the pdoc documentation tool, where he improved reStructuredText support and polished generated docs—to make complex systems more understandable and auditable. Colleagues know him for simplifying complexity into maintainable designs and for an evidence-driven approach to threat modeling and secure architecture. Based in Kiel, he pairs technical depth with a pragmatic mindset and a curious, open-minded personality that includes motorcycle touring as a creative counterpoint to his work.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Information Technology, 1.0 (very good), Master of Science (M.S.), Information Technology, 1.0 (very good) at Kiel University of Applied SciencesDr.-Ing., Computer Science, very good, magna cum laude, Dr.-Ing., Computer Science, very good, magna cum laude at The University of Kiel
English, German, French, Latin
Github Skills (10)
api-documentation10
restructuredtext10
python10
documentation10
docstrings9
documentation-generator9
generator9
document-generation9
css8
html8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
pdoc3/pdoc
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
🐍 ➡️ 📜 Auto-generate API docs for Python projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 18 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the documentation generation project by implementing features related to reStructuredText (reST) directives and improving the visual presentation of the generated documentation. They added support for the `include` directive, including options for line and content filtering. Additionally, the user addressed visual inconsistencies in the CSS and HTML templates, improving the aesthetics of the generated source code displays. Further, they fixed an error in a function annotation.
apidocpythongeneratordocumentation-generatordocumentation-tool
aomader/electron-es6-react
Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
Minimal demonstration how to use React and ES6 with Electron.
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 5 months
electronreact
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.