Summary
Andreas Gredler is a seasoned automation and systems engineer with 19 years of professional experience and a 25-year IT background, currently shaping watch fitness automation at Apple in the San Francisco Bay Area. His career blends deep Linux and infrastructure expertise—from founding an open-source-focused consultancy to leading enterprise support at Rackspace—with hands-on software and QA roles across Apple Maps and wearables. He excels at designing reliable, scalable systems, building Debian/Ubuntu packages, and leveraging automation tooling like Jenkins, cfengine, and FAI to streamline deployments and testing. Known for mentoring engineers and translating complex operational needs into production-ready solutions, he brings an operator’s rigor to software quality and device-level automation. A long-time open source advocate, Andreas quietly connects low-level systems knowledge with product-focused automation to deliver measurable improvements in reliability and test velocity.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Telematics, Telematics at Graz University of Technology, Austria
Associate's Degree, Information Technology, Associate's Degree, Information Technology at Higher Technical College (BULME)
German, English, Spanish