Andreas Finkler
Test Architect at Siemens Mobility GmbH
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarAndreas Finkler is a Test Architect based in Nuremberg, Germany with nine years of experience designing and improving test strategies for complex software systems at Siemens Mobility. He blends hands-on backend development with technical writing, having contributed to the well-known pylint project by improving documentation, fixing plugin-loading bugs, and adding static-analysis checks that catch confusing conditional logic. Known for practical automation work, he integrated towncrier into release processes to streamline changelog generation—an indicator of his focus on maintainable tooling and developer experience. Andreas brings a pragmatic mix of quality engineering, tool-building, and clear communication to help teams ship reliable, well-documented software.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
linter10
linting10
static-code-analysis10
code-analysis10
lint10
software-quality10
python10
documentation10
testing9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pylint-dev/pylint
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
It's not just a linter that annoys you!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:293 reviews, 91 commits, 108 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to enhancing the documentation for the Pylint linter, focusing on clarifying command-line options and their interaction with output formats. They also addressed a bug related to plugin loading in functional tests and developed a new checker to identify confusing conditional logic (ConfusingConsecutiveElifChecker). Additionally, the user implemented new checks for refactoring and contributed to the project's build and release process by integrating the `towncrier` package to automate the creation of a change log.
linterstatic-analysisstatic-code-analysiscode-qualitypep8
DudeNr33/gherlint
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Linter for Gherkin feature files, written in Python
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 98 commits in 7 months
feature-filegherkinlinterpython
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