Andy Grunwald
Engineering Manager (Observability) at Cloudflare
Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAndy Grunwald is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in observability with 14 years of experience building and running production-grade backend systems across cloud-native environments. He blends hands-on engineering (notably in Go and PHP) with leadership roles at Cloudflare, Aiven and trivago, guiding teams through reliability, tooling and release engineering challenges. A long-time open-source contributor, Andy has improved well-known projects like PHP_CodeSniffer, rabbitmq's AMQP client and goreleaser, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on code quality, maintainability and deployment automation. He also organizes and co-hosts local engineering communities and a technical podcast, fostering knowledge-sharing and developer culture in Germany. Colleagues value him for turning messy operational problems into testable, automatable solutions and for shipping durable systems rather than just prototypes.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Informatics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Informatics at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management
German, English
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Github Skills (55)
server-communication10
cms10
content-management-system10
static-analysis10
docker10
jira10
apidoc10
server-client10
amqp10
artifactory10
testing10
jira-rest-api10
authentication10
user-authentication10
bash10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
andygrunwald/FOM-LaTeX-Template
Oct 2013 - Apr 2022
A LaTeX template for term paper, bachelor or master thesis for "FOM University of Applied Sciences"
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 133 commits, 106 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on improving the compilation process and build environment for the LaTeX template. They modified the `compile.sh` script to enhance its robustness by switching to bash, adding exit codes for error handling, and incorporating necessary dependencies. The user also addressed compile warnings and upgraded LaTeX packages, and configured a dockerized compilation environment, reflecting a focus on automation and CI/CD principles within the project. These changes improved the reliability and portability of the LaTeX compilation process.
termxelatexfommasterlatex-template
andygrunwald/go-jira
Aug 2015 - Nov 2022
Go client library for Atlassian Jira
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 354 commits in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andy's commits primarily focus on developing the core functionalities for interacting with Atlassian Jira. They have demonstrated expertise in defining data structures using Go, creating API requests, and interacting with the Jira REST API. The commits included creating new types, adding support for attachments, and refactoring various components. Their work indicates a strong focus on building and maintaining the backend logic for the go-jira library, allowing developers to interact with the Jira API.
jira-apigolangclient-librarygo-clientjira
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