Andreas Veithen
Site Reliability Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndreas Veithen is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer based in London with 18 years of experience spanning Linux systems, Java application architecture and enterprise middleware like WebSphere. Now at Google, he brings deep operational judgment from roles as a WebSphere expert and SOA architect, and a history of fixing hundreds of bugs and managing releases as an Apache committer and PMC member. His open source pedigree includes substantial contributions to Spring Web Services and Apache Axiom, where he improved streaming, namespace handling and removed deprecated APIs to boost reliability and performance. Trained as a theoretical physicist, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic engineering—often automating CI/CD and build processes to tame complex distributed systems. Quietly, he also builds tooling and monitoring integrations (custom RHQ plugins) that bridge developer and ops workflows.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Theoretical Physics, Master, Theoretical Physics at Université catholique de LouvainBischöfliche Schule St. Vith
English, French, German, Dutch
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Github Skills (18)
webservice10
java10
soap10
javas10
spring-boot10
xml10
testing9
jakartaee9
linux9
maven9
soap-server6
child-process6
spring-ws6
spring6
supervisord6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spring-projects/spring-ws
Apr 2013 - Oct 2017
Spring Web Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 11 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on improving the Spring Web Services (Spring-WS) library, a framework for building SOAP-based web services. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to SAXSource handling, namespace prefix handling, and enabling streaming responses, improving the reliability and performance of the library. They also refactored and upgraded the codebase by eliminating deprecated Axiom APIs and streamlining its interaction with the underlying Axiom library. These updates addressed crucial issues, ensuring the library's compatibility and efficiency in handling web service requests.
spring-web
veithen/visualwas
Jul 2013 - Jan 2023
WebSphere plugin for VisualVM
Contributions:15 releases, 411 commits, 201 PRs in 9 years 8 months
visualvmwebspherevisualvm-pluginwebsphere-traditional
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