Andrey Hihlovsky
Software Engineer at Apple GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrey Hihlovsky is a seasoned Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience, currently contributing to Apple from Berlin and focused on JVM and web technologies such as Groovy, Gradle and Java. He is the principal author behind the Gretty Gradle plugin enhancements for running web apps on Jetty/Tomcat, adding hot deployment, security realms and web-fragment support—work that illustrates his knack for developer tooling and production-grade deployment ergonomics. Comfortable in Linux and macOS, he favors concise, elegant and flexible code and brings a long history of designing and architecting backend systems across consulting and product roles. An active open-source practitioner and technical blogger, he pairs pragmatic engineering with deep curiosity across build systems and web runtimes.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Tomsk State University
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (11)
javas10
gradle-plugin10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
groovy10
java10
jetty10
servlet9
spring-boot7
web-framework7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akhikhl/gretty
Jun 2013 - Jun 2017
Advanced gradle plugin for running web-apps on jetty and tomcat.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1002 commits, 39 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Andrey's contributions focused on enhancing the gretty Gradle plugin, particularly in the realm of web application deployment and management. They implemented the functionality for running and starting web applications on Jetty, including supporting both WAR archives and in-place web applications. Furthermore, they introduced support for web-fragment configuration, security realms, and added a mechanism for hot deployment, allowing for dynamic reloading of classes and resources.
gradlegroovyjooqweb-appstomcat
akhikhl/wuff-sandbox
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:24 commits, 1 comment in 2 days
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