Andrei Chiș is a tool crafter and DevOps-focused engineer with 17 years of experience building moldable development environments and automating build/release pipelines for projects like the Glamorous Toolkit. Based in Switzerland, he combines deep academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science—with hands-on work creating CI/CD, test automation, and packaging workflows using Pharo, shell and PowerShell. At feenk he designs developer-facing micro-tools that make complex systems more explainable, and he also contributes technical expertise as a "tech smith" at polypoly. Known for improving developer experience through reproducible builds and integrated architectural reporting, he blends research sensibilities with practical engineering to make systems easier to evolve.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Politehnica University of Timisoara
PhD of Science, Computer Science, summa cum laude, PhD of Science, Computer Science, summa cum laude at University of Bern (Official)
Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment. It empowers you to make systems explainable through contextual micro tools.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:422 commits, 566 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrei focused on automating and improving the build and release process for the Glamorous Toolkit project. Their contributions include modifying build scripts (shell scripts and PowerShell) to run tests, package the application, and prepare it for deployment. The user integrated various testing frameworks and architectural reports into the CI/CD pipeline. They also worked on setting up continuous integration, configuring the testing environment, and managing dependencies using Pharo.
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