Andreas Zoellner
Co-Founder And CTO at BrightCrowd
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Zoellner is a founder-CTO and engineer with 12 years of experience building data-driven SaaS platforms for professional services, currently leading Index Solutions to improve CRM data quality through automation and a distributed labor marketplace. He co-founded BrightCrowd to create beautiful digital memory books for alumni and enterprise communities, demonstrating a knack for product design and customer-focused solutions across markets. His background blends rigorous aerospace research—PhD/MS work at Stanford on satellite systems—with hands-on software and thermal-simulation engineering, yielding a rare combination of systems-level thinking and pragmatic coding. An active open-source contributor, he has strengthened the popular serverless-offline project by hardening auth and ARN handling and adding test coverage to improve reliability for local Lambda development. He pairs technical leadership with entrepreneurial grit, having led grant-backed AR medical tech development and optimized simulation code by an order of magnitude earlier in his career. Based in the United States and also a pilot, he brings disciplined problem-solving and an operator’s mindset to scaling product and engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur Engineering Cybernetics, Diplom-Ingenieur Engineering Cybernetics at University of StuttgartPh.D. Mechanical Engineering Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University
Github Skills (11)
regular-expression10
aws-lambda10
serverless10
javascript10
unit-test10
authorization9
aws-api-gateway-v29
auth9
aws-apigateway9
authentication9
nodejs9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
dherault/serverless-offline
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the serverless-offline project. They implemented features like adding request context to the auth event and refactoring authorization policy resource matching. Significant work was done to address bugs related to ARN parsing and wildcard handling in resource policies. Furthermore, the user contributed tests to ensure the correctness and robustness of the implemented features, particularly around authorization.
api-gatewayapidevelopinglambda-functionsaws-lambda
BrightCrowd/serverless-offline
Oct 2021 - May 2024
Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 7 months
api-gatewayapidevelopingserverlessaws-lambda
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