Andreas Mewald
Unternehmensinhaber at Softwald e.U.
Baden, Lower Austria
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Top SchoolAndreas Mewald is a seasoned .NET software engineer and founder with 10+ years of experience designing resilient backend systems, test automation, and system architecture from Baden, Austria. As owner of Softwald and former Senior IT-Consultant at EBCONT, he combines hands-on development with practical consultancy, delivering .NET applications, Ranorex-based test automation, and CI/CD solutions. He has deep experience in VoIP and SIP stacks, Windows services, and automation tooling including Jenkins, PowerShell, and Entity Framework. An active contributor to the Polly resilience library, he focuses on code quality and maintainability by refactoring critical retry, circuit-breaker and fallback logic. Known for turning complex operational requirements into reliable, testable systems, he pairs an engineering diploma from FH Campus Wien with a pragmatic, developer-first approach.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieur Informationstechnologie, Ingenieur Informationstechnologie at HTL MödlingDiplom-Ingenieurin (Dipl.Ing.) Computer- und Informationswissenschaften und Support-Dienste, Diplom-Ingenieurin (Dipl.Ing.) Computer- und Informationswissenschaften und Support-Dienste at FH Campus Wien | University of Applied Sciences
German, English
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Github Skills (14)
net10
asp-net10
powershell10
dotnet10
csharp10
circuit-breaker10
dotnet-core10
refactoring9
windows6
powershell-remoting6
batchfile6
accessdenied6
sip6
cmd6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
App-vNext/Polly
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner. From version 6.0.1, Polly targets .NET Standard 1.1 and 2.0+.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 14 PRs, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the codebase, particularly within the circuit breaker, fallback, and retry policy implementations of the Polly library. Their contributions involved converting single-line methods to expression-bodied members across various classes, enhancing code readability and potentially improving performance. The user's work also included code cleanup tasks, such as removing empty lines, further demonstrating their focus on code quality and maintainability within the project.
circuit-breakerfaulttransient-fault-handlingexpressfallback
moerwald/aspire-demo
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:609 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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