Alexander Scherer
CTO at TRILUX Digital Solutions GmbH
Ahaus, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Scherer is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 11 years of hands-on experience turning complex ideas into scalable, reliable digital products across infrastructure, 3D development, and enterprise systems. He combines executive leadership at TRILUX Digital Solutions and CEO responsibilities at his consultancy Technifii with deep engineering roots from roles as CIO, senior developer, and SAP consultant. Comfortable both architecting cloud and DevOps platforms and diving into backend code, he has contributed to notable open-source projects like Cataclysm-DDA and InstaPy, improving NPC interactions and automated-follow features respectively. His career shows a pattern of taking ownership of products (notably the Contilas line) through multiple license transfers and company transitions, emphasizing long-term product stewardship. Based in Ahaus, Germany, he blends systems integration experience from early apprenticeships with modern DevOps and consulting practices, making him adept at bridging legacy enterprise needs and contemporary delivery. Peers describe him as a builder who prefers shipping working solutions over theoretical designs.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Fachabitur Informatik, Fachabitur Informatik at Berufskolleg für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung AhausHEBO Privatschule MünsterFachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung Informatik, Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung Informatik at Berufskolleg für Technik Ahaus
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Github Skills (24)
c-language10
instagram10
selenium10
back-end-development10
python10
selenium-ide10
cl10
automation10
cat10
ca10
automations10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
apidoc9
object-oriented-programming9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
InstaPy/InstaPy
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
📷 Instagram Bot - Tool for automated Instagram interactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on fixing and improving the user following functionality within the Instagram bot. Their contributions involved refactoring existing code, adding new functionalities such as retrieving additional data, and updating existing functions to support new features like the skipping of public profiles. They also addressed bug fixes, and improved the reliability and data retrieval within the bot's core functionalities. The user made significant changes to the utility functions for improved data handling.
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CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 47 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing the NPC interaction system within the game. Their contributions involved adding functionality to mark items as favorites in the NPC trade UI, enabling NPCs to drop non-favorite items, and refining related dialogue. These changes required modifications to several core game files including `npctrade.cpp`, `npctalk_funcs.cpp`, `npctalk.h`, and `npctalk.cpp`. The user also fixed a bug related to making items favorites, ensuring the intended behavior.
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