Alexander Ott
Software Engineer at Samhammer AG
Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Ott is a pragmatic software engineer with 7 years' experience focused on backend systems, primarily in Java and Python, while regularly contributing fullstack work in C#, TypeScript, and JavaScript. He has modernized and migrated enterprise stacks—moving .NET frameworks, ORMs, and databases forward—while deploying cloud-native services on Kubernetes across Azure and Google Cloud. Comfortable across Postgres and MS SQL, he pairs strong Git discipline with Linux-based operations and practical SQL expertise. His open-source contributions include enhancing internationalization and PDF parsing in a popular Java portfolio-performance project, demonstrating attention to real-world data ingestion edge cases. Trained in Medical Informatics at Heidelberg University, he combines domain-aware thinking with engineering rigor. Based in Heilbronn, Germany, he brings steady delivery and an aptitude for untangling legacy systems into maintainable, modern architectures.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Medical Informatics, Bachelor's degree Medical Informatics at Heidelberg UniversityAbitur, Abitur at Andreas Schneider Schule
English, German, Latin, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
javas10
internationalization10
pdf-parsing10
java10
regular-expression9
extraction8
financial8
unit-testing8
data-extraction8
management7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
portfolio-performance/portfolio
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Track and evaluate the performance of your investment portfolio across stocks, cryptocurrencies, and other assets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:359 reviews, 587 commits, 1430 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's commits focused on adding support for the Italian language within the Java-based portfolio performance application. This involved modifying the `DegiroPDFExtractor.java` file to include Italian translations and update the code to parse Italian deposit, and withdrawal entries from PDF reports. The user also corrected issues in the Degiro PDF-Importer, removing support for some transactions and refining tests. These modifications enhanced the application's internationalization and PDF parsing capabilities, allowing it to accommodate users with different language preferences.
financialinvestment-portfoliopythonportfolio-performanceinvestment
Nirus2000/Kletterpartnersuche
Nov 2018 - Feb 2021
Kletterpartnersuche
Contributions:3 releases, 75 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months
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