Björn Hurling
Freelance Software Engineer
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolBjörn Hurling is a freelance software engineer based in Hamburg with 12+ years of hands-on experience building Android apps, cross-platform mobile solutions and modern web frontends. He combines deep knowledge of app architecture and SOLID principles with backend and API design skills, routinely improving CI/CD, build automation and developer experience—having contributed tests and refactors to the popular gradle-play-publisher plugin. Björn has helped scale consumer-facing products serving millions of users, introduced attribute-based access control for multi-tenant systems, and led transitions to white‑label and B2B platforms. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he focuses on the small product decisions that elevate quality and developer productivity, and is currently available for new assignments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Informatik at University of Hanover
German, English
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Github Skills (14)
gradle-plugin10
android10
testing10
automation9
mobile9
automations9
publish8
google-apps8
android-development8
drag-and-drop6
gradle6
gradle-play-publisher6
shared-element-transition6
kotlin4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Triple-T/gradle-play-publisher
Aug 2014 - Jan 2019
GPP is Android's unofficial release automation Gradle Plugin. It can do anything from building, uploading, and then promoting your App Bundle or APK to publishing app listings and other metadata.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:184 commits, 149 PRs, 232 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Björn primarily contributed to the `gradle-play-publisher` plugin by adding and improving test cases. They implemented tests for flavor-based builds, added functionality for publishing to different tracks (alpha, beta, production), and integrated the "whatsnew" functionality for localized release notes. Furthermore, they refactored code to simplify constructor calls and updated test configurations to improve efficiency and reliability.
gradleapp-bundlemobilemetadatauploading
jenkinsci/bitbucket-approve-plugin
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Plugin that enables Jenkins to approve commits on Bitbucket
Contributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 1 month
jenkinscommitsjenkins-pluginapprovejenkins-api-plugin
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