Bernd Rössl is a software developer with 16 years of experience building and operating backend systems, currently contributing at ALPLA Group after six years at Crate.io. He has hands-on expertise in distributed databases and DevOps, having helped configure build and deployment pipelines and plugin integrations for the notable CrateDB project. His career spans long-term engineering roles at Lovely Systems and external engagements with studiVZ, reflecting steady, production-focused delivery across startups and product companies. Based in Vorarlberg, Austria, Bernd blends practical infrastructure work with application development and brings a pragmatic, operations-minded approach to shipping reliable systems. An often overlooked strength is his sustained commitment to improving deployment and startup scripts—small, behind-the-scenes changes that materially increase team velocity and system robustness.
CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:107 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bernd primarily focused on setting up and configuring the CrateDB project's build and deployment processes. Their commits include the addition of a deployment script, modifications to start-up scripts (bin/crate.bat, sources/bin/crate.bat, and sources/bin/plugin.bat) and changes to the Gruntfile for versioning. Also, commits involve integrating and managing various plugins (elasticsearch-inout-plugin, elasticsearch-timefacets-plugin) and admin interfaces.
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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