Dominik Dorn
Senior Software Engineer at Dominik Dorn
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolDominik Dorn is a senior software engineer and entrepreneur from Vienna with 17 years of experience building scalable, reactive backend systems in Scala and Java. He runs his own consultancy since 2009, bringing deep e-commerce domain knowledge and hands-on expertise in Akka, Play Framework, Spark, Kafka and Cassandra. A long-time Java community leader and conference organizer, he pairs practical freelancing experience with contributions to notable open-source projects like the Play Framework where he fixed multipart parsing bugs and added compressed asset support. His background spans roles from CTO to research engineering, reflecting a blend of product-focused leadership and low-level concurrent/functional programming craftsmanship. He holds a Bachelor’s in Software & Information Engineering from TU Wien and is known for favoring pragmatic, resilient architectures over hype.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyEngineer’s Degree, Betriebsinformatik / Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree, Betriebsinformatik / Computer Science at HTL Dornbirn
English, German
Github Skills (9)
application-framework10
javas10
app-framework10
web-framework10
playframework10
java10
scala10
restful9
testing8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
playframework/playframework
Oct 2014 - Aug 2019
The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 21 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dominik primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Play Framework. Their work involved addressing issues in the multipart/form-data parser, fixing documentation typos, and implementing enhancements like trimming digests of assets and adding support for compressed assets (brotli, bz2, and lzma2). They also resolved a NullPointerException in documentation code.
restfulplay-frameworkframeworkplayframeworkjvm
domdorn/aws-blocker
May 2015 - May 2022
A simple bash script to block all AWS IP ranges using iptables.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
ip-rangesbashbash-scriptawsiptables
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