Andreas Opferkuch
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Opferkuch is a senior full-stack engineer based in Berlin with nine years of experience building scalable, user-focused web and extension products. He has driven delivery and reliability improvements at scale—reducing incidents, introducing trunk-based development, CI/e2e testing, and automating release flows for a browser extension with 1–2M users and web apps serving hundreds of thousands. At Grafana Labs he contributed to the popular open-source Grafana project, shaping UI and Prometheus integrations for observability and cloud alerting features. He combines deep frontend expertise (React, TypeScript, theming, design systems) with pragmatic backend automation (OpenAPI-based validation, Node tooling) and a history of shipping UX improvements that cut infrastructure costs. A former founder and long-time OSS contributor, he pairs product-driven thinking with a creative background in visual effects and digital media—bringing both technical rigor and an eye for polished interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
IT & Management, IT & Management at Higher Technical Institute Wiener NeustadtMSc Digital Media, MSc Digital Media at University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg
English, German
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Github Skills (22)
prometheus10
react10
data-visualizations9
visual-studio-code9
typescript9
data-visualisation9
typescript-types9
data-visualization9
typescripts9
ui-design8
dashboard8
testing8
git7
mime-types6
firefox6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 33 PRs, 49 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the Grafana project by implementing and refining features related to the user interface and data visualization. They addressed usability concerns by modifying tooltips, and expanded the Prometheus data source's capabilities, including metrics lookup and refresh behavior. Furthermore, the user worked on improvements to the theming and component structure.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
s-h-a-d-o-w/cf-geo-steering-helper
Nov 2019 - Sep 2024
App to help with Cloudflare's load balancer config (using geo steering)
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
gitpodgeocloudflareatsconfig
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