Andreas Frömer
Engineering Manager at Kaufland e-commerce
Markt Indersdorf, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Frömer is an engineering leader with 10+ years of hands-on PHP and backend experience who now manages engineering teams to deliver pragmatic, user-focused software. He has led platform and developer-experience initiatives—standardizing local setups, CI/CD, and modular templates—to dramatically speed onboarding and time-to-market at companies like Finanztip and CHECK24. A pragmatic advocate of tight customer feedback loops and XP practices, he prioritizes shipping small, test-driven increments and removing organizational roadblocks so teams can thrive. Andreas is an active open-source contributor (notably to libraries like ramsey/collection, phpdoc-parser and Go! AOP), where his work ranges from parser enhancements to quality and type-safety improvements. Based in Bavaria, he balances leadership with craft—still coding solutions, contributing aliases and tooling, and mentoring engineers—while also finding time to be a proud dad and gamer.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Vocational baccalaureate diploma, Vocational baccalaureate diploma at SBBS ArnstadtIT specialist - Application development, IT specialist - Application development at incowia GmbH
German, English
Stackoverflow
141reputation
412reached
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Github Skills (48)
application-framework10
unit-testing10
git10
filesystem10
file-manipulation10
testing10
app-framework10
arrayobject10
zend-framework10
bash10
aop10
alias10
php-parser10
phpunit10
php10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
composer-unused/composer-unused
Mar 2019 - Sep 2022
Show unused composer dependencies by scanning your code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 releases, 47 reviews, 309 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas's contributions primarily involve adding features and fixing bugs within the PHP-based project. These changes include improvements to the codebase by fixing issues like missing namespaces, and improvements to the parsing strategies for the projects. They also added new code features, like the ability to cross-reference packages by usage.
dependenciesunusedphppsyshpackagist
Bash-it/bash-it
Feb 2017 - Nov 2018
A community Bash framework.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the `bash-it/bash-it` repository by adding and modifying bash aliases. These aliases streamlined common git and composer commands, enhancing developer productivity within the Bash environment. The user's work included adding new aliases, renaming existing ones for consistency, and modifying the command prefixes to avoid command conflicts. These changes directly impact the user experience and efficiency of developers using the framework.
bash-promptbash-completionbash-configurationproductivitybash-framework
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