Andreas Streichardt
Freelance Software Engineer Consultant at Freiberuflich
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarAndreas Streichardt is a seasoned freelance software engineer and consultant with 14 years of experience specializing in backend systems, DevOps, and database reliability engineering. He has deep hands-on experience with ArangoDB and Azure deployments, contributing to high-profile projects like ArangoDB’s core and Azure quickstart templates by improving cluster stability, health checks, and automated installation flows. Based in Cologne, he blends practical infrastructure automation with backend troubleshooting—resolving connection timeouts, orchestration issues, and performance tuning across distributed systems. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and advisor, he helps teams ship resilient, maintainable systems while quietly owning the gritty operational details others avoid. Despite a self-deprecating GitHub bio, his track record shows consistent, impactful contributions to production-grade open-source and client projects.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (35)
c-language10
databases10
bash10
distributed-systems10
arangodb10
cluster-manager10
cluster-api10
cprogramming-language10
devops10
clustering10
database10
scripting9
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
arangodb/arangodb
Feb 2016 - Jul 2019
🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:90 commits, 50 PRs, 940 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily worked on improving the stability and maintainability of the ArangoDB cluster. This includes addressing backend errors, such as connection timeouts and backend unavailability. The user also contributed to the setup and configuration of the cluster environment, including starting and managing secondary database servers, and related infrastructure. Furthermore, the user implemented and improved server health checks and agency redirect functionality, improving overall system reliability.
data-modelsdatabase-modelextensionsjavascriptquery-language
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andreas's contributions primarily involved modifying an installation script and configuration files for an ArangoDB cluster within an Azure environment. They focused on automating and improving the setup process, including the use of `sudo` for installations and implementing retries for updates and installations. Furthermore, they updated the configuration files and deployment scripts, and optimized the system for performance with thread adjustments.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
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