Dominik Dingel
Staff Software Engineer at sevdesk
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDominik Dingel is a Staff Software Engineer based in the Greater Hamburg Area with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native back-end systems. He has progressed from IBM through roles in DevOps and platform engineering to staff-level leadership at sevdesk, blending hands-on implementation with platform reliability focus. Dominik contributes to open-source testing tooling—most notably improving Kafka integration and test automation in the Zerocode project—showing attention to maintainability and asynchronous system correctness. His background spans software, cloud, and DevOps roles across SaaS and enterprise contexts, making him comfortable with both development and operational concerns. Colleagues rely on him to refactor messy code paths into readable, testable components and to bridge gaps between streaming data and automated test suites. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Siegen and favors pragmatic, incremental improvements that reduce technical debt.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Universität Siegen / University of Siegen
Github Skills (14)
application-framework10
app-framework10
javas10
web-framework10
kafka10
junit10
automation10
automations10
java10
testing10
refactor9
refactoring9
api9
assertion9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
authorjapps/zerocode
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
A community-developed, free, opensource, automated testing framework for microservices APIs, Kafka(Data Streams), Databases and Load testing. Zerocode Open Source enables you to create, change and maintain your automated test scenarios via simple JSON or YAML files—no coding required.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 8 commits, 12 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dominik contributed to the `zerocode` project by removing unused code, imports, and object instances, improving code cleanliness. They refactored existing code and fixed styling issues for better readability and maintainability. A key contribution involved adding and modifying a method to facilitate waiting for consumer group join in Kafka operations, specifically within testing scenarios. Their work focused on the Kafka integration aspects of the testing framework.
casesapi-automationload-testingcontractsoftware-quality
ddingel/cert-manager-webhook-dode
Apr 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.