Axel Hodler
Forward Deployed Engineer at Blockbrain
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAxel Hodler is a Manager for Industrial Cloud Solutions with 11 years of experience building automation-first, cloud-native systems for automotive and enterprise clients. He blends pragmatic, goal-oriented product thinking with lean execution and strong engineering practices—favoring fast, measurable increments over speculative development. Technically grounded in Java and Kotlin backends, modern JavaScript frameworks and iOS, he also leverages AWS and Firebase to operationalize resilient distributed systems. At Porsche Digital and MHP he led full-stack delivery, agile coaching and new business development, while contributing to the Spring Cloud Contract project by enhancing its contract DSL and test automation. Colleagues rely on him to veto unprofitable work early and to turn clear objectives into dependable, measurable outcomes. Outside work he’s interested in human progress topics such as health, fitness and longevity, which inform his focus on impactful automation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business informatics, Bachelor's degree Business informatics at Stuttgart Media University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
json10
consumer-driven-contracts10
groovy10
java10
spring-boot10
testing10
spock9
junit9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
spring-attic/spring-cloud-contract
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Support for Consumer Driven Contracts in Spring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Axel primarily contributed to the testing and implementation of features within the Spring Cloud Contract project. They focused on adding new DSL properties, such as `anyDouble`, `anyHttpsUrl` and `anyPositiveInt`, expanding the capabilities of the contract verifier. They also made adjustments to prevent the parsing of the response body when not explicitly specified in the contract and improved documentation related to contract priority.
consumer-driven-contractsjavaspringspring-bootspring-cloud
axelhodler/hodler.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:12 PRs, 180 pushes, 12 branches in 10 years 11 months
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