Eike Send
Senior Backend Developer at Various
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolEike Send is a seasoned Senior Backend Developer based in Berlin with 15 years of experience building maintainable Ruby on Rails applications and mentoring teams in test-driven development. At ioki he drives backend architecture beyond plain MVC, emphasizing separation of concerns and long-lived, testable codebases. A longtime freelancer and former founder, he has a track record of turning prototypes into production products (notably at Philips) and onboarding new engineers to Rails and TDD. He contributes to notable open-source projects, improving Rails UI components and enhancing routing logic in Valhalla with fixes for localization and complex maneuver handling. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he pairs hands-on coding with architectural thinking to reduce technical debt while keeping teams productive.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Freie Universität Berlin
German, English, French
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Github Skills (28)
openstreetmap10
datetime10
c-language10
routing-slip10
rails10
datetimes10
routes10
html10
cprogramming-language10
ruby-on-rails10
osrm10
rubygems9
javascript9
seo9
event-handling9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
valhalla/valhalla
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
Open Source Routing Engine for OpenStreetMap
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 4 PRs, 51 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Eike primarily contributed to the OSRM serializer component of the Valhalla routing engine, focusing on refining the generation of routing instructions for OSRM format. Their work involved adding and modifying banner instructions, voice instructions, and lane indications for turn maneuvers. They addressed segfaults, fixed issues related to roundabout handling, and integrated new features like voice localization. Furthermore, the user has also worked on functionality to ignore construction ways when routing.
osrmmulti-modalnominatimtileddijkstra
leikind/wice_grid
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
A Rails grid plugin to create grids with sorting, pagination, and (automatically generated) filters
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Eike focused on enhancing the `wice_grid` Rails plugin, specifically improving its date filtering functionality. They implemented the ability to use native HTML5 date input fields, adding new features and refining existing ones. The user corrected ID attributes, formatted date objects correctly in HTML5 input fields, and enabled autoreloading for external filters on HTML5 date inputs. Further contributions included adding documentation about the HTML5 date input option to the configuration file.
gridsfiltersrailspaginationruby
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