André Rüdiger
Software Development Consultant at Selbstständig
Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarAndré Rüdiger is a software development consultant with 13 years of professional experience and two decades working across GIS, manufacturing, customer relations and healthcare, focused on delivering efficient, customer-value driven solutions. He champions agile practices, functional composition and code review, pairing pragmatic engineering with strong collaboration. André has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Akka and Spray, improving HTTP functionality, content negotiation and proxy authentication in actor-based, non-blocking systems. Based in Erfurt, Germany, he combines backend systems expertise with a knack for clear documentation and refactoring, quietly strengthening resilience and developer experience in distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
reactive10
apidoc10
http10
distributed-systems10
akka10
scala10
api10
concurrency10
rest9
actor-model9
documentation8
testing8
api-design8
event-listener6
curl6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
akka/akka
Mar 2013 - Jun 2017
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:138 commits, 40 PRs, 864 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:André primarily contributed to the documentation and core functionalities of the Akka project, a platform for building elastic and resilient applications. Their work included fixing documentation for IO, and refactoring code, as demonstrated by file modifications in several core modules, including akka-http-core, and akka-http. The contributions included updates to content negotiation and various refactoring of code. The work is aligned with the repository's focus on actor models, concurrency, and reactive systems.
resilientactor-modelreactiveconcurrentdistributed-actors
spray/spray
Feb 2013 - Nov 2014
A suite of scala libraries for building and consuming RESTful web services on top of Akka: lightweight, asynchronous, non-blocking, actor-based, testable
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 5 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:André primarily contributed to the `spray/spray` project, focusing on improving HTTP functionalities. They implemented support for proxy authentication and content negotiation within the HTTP library. Furthermore, they refactored authorization headers, updated documentation, and addressed typos. The user also added the "Allow" header to method rejections, enhancing the API's error handling.
web-services-restfulon-topnon-blockingwebtransportwebclient
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