Andreas Molzer
Molzer Softwareconsulting at Freiberuflich
Ottobrunn, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarAndreas Molzer is a pragmatic backend software engineer with 11 years of experience, now running his own consulting practice in Bavaria. He specializes in Rust, maintaining core image-rs crates (notably image-png) and contributing to networking and tooling projects like smoltcp and uutils/coreutils, with a strong focus on reliability, testing, and CI/fuzzing. At nebumind he shipped production-grade systems and has deep experience in auth and security, evidenced by contributions to the oxide-auth OAuth2 library. Colleagues know him for careful refactors, improved diagnostics, and making low-level parsing and protocol code more robust—work that often surfaces as subtle but critical fixes.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (36)
tokenize10
deco10
authorizations10
api-design10
netstack10
testing10
net10
authentication10
user-authentication10
decode10
networking10
webapi10
sys10
png10
authorization10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
image-rs/image-png
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
PNG decoding and encoding library in pure Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:179 reviews, 271 commits, 234 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a PNG decoding and encoding library written in Rust. Their work involved fixing dependencies, refactoring code to improve efficiency, and improving the test infrastructure. They focused on areas like handling errors, cleaning up the chunk decoding, improving image validation, and incorporating CI/CD integration for fuzzing regression. This work indicates a focus on enhancing the library's functionality and robustness.
pngrust
image-rs/image
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Encoding and decoding images in Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:523 reviews, 789 commits, 646 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andreas made several contributions focused on improving the parsing and decoding of Portable Pixel Map (PNM) images. Their work involved addressing comment handling, adding and refining decoder tests, and improving diagnostic messages. Furthermore, the user implemented support for both the binary and ascii encoded pixel representations, including improvements to the handling of the ascii encoded data.
rustdecoding-imagespixel
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