Andreas Gies
Lead Developer at epNeo
Viñuela, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolAndreas Gies is a seasoned lead developer and founder with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and advising large-scale messaging and distributed systems across Europe. He blends deep expertise in Scala, ZIO, Akka and Java with practical DevOps skills in CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes, having led architecture and deployment work for ESB and messaging platforms since the early 2000s. As founder and lead consultant of Way of Quality and now Lead Developer at epNeo, he pairs client-facing strategic consulting with day-to-day engineering. Andreas is an active open-source contributor—his recent work modernized the ZIO documentation site and improved the Hawtio JVM management console—showing a knack for developer experience as well as core system design. Based in Andalusia, he combines military-grade project management from his German Air Force background with a formal Computer Science degree, making him especially effective at coordinating large, distributed engineering efforts.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
A Level, A Level at HUMBOLDT HIGH SCHOOLDegree Computer Science, Degree Computer Science at UNIVERSITY OF THE GERMAN FORCESGERMAN AIRFORCE OFFICERS SCHOOL
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
website-development10
console10
typescript10
hawtio10
scala10
osgi10
webapp10
typescript-types10
docusaurus10
typescripts10
async9
asynchronous9
java9
angularjs9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zio/zio
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for async and concurrent programming in Scala
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 25 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the documentation and website for the ZIO project, refactoring the documentation framework to Docusaurus v2. Their work included enabling search functionality, restyling the navbar, configuring prism highlighting, and styling the front page. Further contributions involved adjusting site deployment scripts and updating the documentation banner to maintain versioning and align with the 2.x series.
functional-programmingqueuesstreamsasynchronicityasync
hawtio/hawtio
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Hawtio web console helps you manage your JVM stuff and stay cool!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 10 comments, 4 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andreas's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Hawtio web console, a Java-based web application for managing JVM applications. The contributions involve bug fixes related to OSGi panels and dependency visualization, indicating work across both the front-end (JavaScript/TypeScript) and potentially the back-end (Java). They also worked on UI improvements. The user also contributed to code related to fabric configuration and broker configuration.
consoleweb-appjvmhawtioweb-console
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