Andreas Stührk
Co-Founder & Confidential Computing Architect at YAXI
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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RockstarAndreas Stührk is a backend-focused founder and confidential computing architect with 17 years of experience designing, implementing and operating scalable distributed systems. He blends hands-on debugging and production reliability work with product-minded engineering, having led backend teams and technical initiatives from early-stage features to high-traffic services. Andreas has deep SRE and DevOps chops—evidenced by contributions to projects like NixOS on WSL and robustness fixes in OpenCV’s TIFF decoder—and advocates applying formal methods such as TLA+ to uncover subtle architecture bugs. Comfortable across the full product lifecycle, he balances code quality, performance and business impact while continuously learning and sharing knowledge within teams.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French
Github Skills (20)
tiff10
c-language10
nix10
image-processing10
configuration-management10
nixos10
bash10
wsl210
computer-vision10
systemd10
cprogramming-language10
scripting9
testing9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
nix-community/NixOS-WSL
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
NixOS on WSL(2) [maintainer=@nzbr]
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 19 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to setting up and refining the NixOS on WSL environment. Their work includes modifying the system's initialization process and user configuration, ensuring that systemd functions correctly within the WSL environment. They addressed issues related to the startup scripts and user access, enhancing the overall usability and functionality of NixOS within WSL. Additionally, the user worked on updating the README and license for the project.
nix-flakewslnixos-configurationnixoswsl-environment
opencv/opencv
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Open Source Computer Vision Library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the image processing library's TIFF image format support, focusing on addressing memory allocation issues and improving the robustness of the TIFF decoder. Their work involved modifying the TIFF decoding logic to handle "infinite" rows per strip, which involved changes to buffer sizes and the underlying data reading functions. The contributions also included fixing test names and other minor code corrections.
pythonvisiondeep-learningc-plus-pluscomputer-vision
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