Andreas Niess
Unternehmensinhaber at GtA - Gesellschaft für textile Ausrüstung mbH
Neresheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Niess is an entrepreneurial owner based in Neresheim, Germany, combining 11 years of technical experience with running GtA, a company specializing in finishing technical textiles. He brings a rare mix of hands-on backend and DevOps contributions to well-known open-source mapping and monitoring projects—improving build portability in Mapnik, enhancing image handling in Monitorix, and standardizing logging and CI for mod_tile. His background in textile finishing from Hochschule Reutlingen informs a practical, process-oriented approach to engineering and operations. Notably, he navigates both niche manufacturing workflows and cross-platform software challenges, translating low-level build fixes and usability improvements into more robust production systems.
11 years of coding experience
Textilveredlung, Textilveredlung at Hochschule Reutlingen
Github Skills (24)
github-ci10
c-language10
monitor10
linux10
build-system10
cmake10
mapnik10
c1110
perl10
system-monitoring10
c1710
build-automation10
logging10
githubaction-workflow10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
openstreetmap/mod_tile
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
Renders map tiles with mapnik and serves them using apache
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 25 reviews, 18 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Andreas focused on improving the logging mechanisms within the `mod_tile` project. They implemented the GLib Logging Framework, standardizing log message prefixes and migrating existing logging calls. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build and test process by integrating Fedora 34 builds and adjusting compression to GZip. These changes also include updates to the GitHub Actions workflow definitions and the addition of configurability for the PID file path.
map-tilesmap-editortilemapapacheserves
mikaku/Monitorix
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on improving the Monitorix tool's display of zoomed images within the system monitoring interface. Their work involved modifying the Perl code, specifically within the `pgsql.pm` and `process.pm` files, to ensure that zoomed images, particularly those in SVG format, are correctly scaled and fit within the pop-up window. The commits demonstrate adjustments to the image display logic, introducing new functions for image linking to optimize the user experience for displaying monitoring graphs. This user's commits directly address usability issues in displaying monitoring data.
unixlinuxmonitoring-toolmonitorixsystem-monitoring
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