Andrea Schweer
Solutions Architect at DSpace
Waikato, New Zealand
Summary
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RockstarAndrea Schweer is a Solutions Architect based in Waikato, New Zealand with 15 years of experience designing and delivering reliable back-end systems. Currently shaping architecture at the University of Waikato, she brings deep hands-on skills from long-term commitment to the DSpace open-source digital asset management project, where she is a committer focused on search, OAI catalog and Solr performance improvements. Her background shows a practical blend of systems thinking and code-level problem solving—fixing subtle configuration bugs and optimizing logging and sorting for production repositories. Comfortable moving between architecture and code, she excels at turning institutional requirements into maintainable, performant solutions for research and library infrastructure. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic technical leadership grounded in extensive open-source stewardship.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
git-repository10
binary-repository10
package-repository10
java10
dspace10
rest-api9
open-source9
maven6
shibboleth6
spring-jms6
attribute6
jackson6
xslt6
spring-boot6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
DSpace/DSpace
Jul 2011 - Sep 2016
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 commits, 49 PRs, 25 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the back-end of the DSpace system, addressing various issues and implementing improvements. Their work included applying patches from Jira tickets, modifying Java code related to the search and OAI catalog functionalities. The user also fixed a bug related to spurious space characters in the dspace.cfg configuration file. Furthermore, they improved the performance of Solr logging and made several changes to the sort options.
management-systemopen-accessdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowers
UoW-IRRs/XMLUI-Extras
Sep 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:61 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years
xmldspaceextensions
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