Andreas Fester
Senior Software Developer at CONTACT Software
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Fester is a senior software developer with 13 years of focused experience and over two decades in professional engineering roles, currently delivering enterprise software at CONTACT Software in Karlsruhe. He spent more than a decade at Oracle in architecture and senior management roles, blending hands-on development with system design and team leadership. Andreas contributes to open-source Java projects such as RichTextFX, where he refactored model classes and improved text rendering features like adjustable underlining and shape-calculation fixes. His background ranges from freelance hardware/software projects to architect and lead positions, giving him a pragmatic, full-stack perspective on complex product lifecycles. Known for methodical refactors and UI rendering expertise, he brings steady technical stewardship to long-lived codebases.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (30)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FXMisc/RichTextFX
May 2016 - Jul 2021
Rich-text area for JavaFX
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 20 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andreas's primary contribution revolved around refactoring and reorganizing the project's model classes within the `fxmisc/richtextfx` repository. These changes included moving classes to a specific model package. Additionally, the user's commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the text rendering capabilities of the rich text editor, specifically implementing text underline functionality with adjustable properties. The user also worked on fixing bugs related to shape calculations.
javafxrich-textrich-text-editorjava
afester/FranzXaver
Nov 2015 - Sep 2021
JavaFX components, tools, and sample applications
Contributions:460 commits, 2 PRs, 306 pushes in 5 years 11 months
javafx
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