Fabian Gruber
Principal Software Engineer at NiCE Cognigy
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFabian Gruber is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native microservices, currently based in Cologne and leading platform and infrastructure initiatives. He has deep expertise in Scala and Java and a proven track record transforming brittle deployments into resilient, autoscaled Kubernetes platforms—most recently migrating Appwrite from a single-region Docker-Swarm setup to a vendor-agnostic, highly scalable Kubernetes CI/CD pipeline. Across a decade at ESL FACEIT Group he advanced from engineer to principal, blending hands-on backend work with team leadership in the esports software domain. Fabian contributes to open source tooling for competitive gaming (notably backend improvements to the popular eBot CS:GO server-bot) and focuses on pragmatic, data-driven fixes around match management and game-server interactions. He pairs formal training in informatics from FH Aachen with a pragmatic systems mindset, often tackling the operational edge-cases that break production at scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Informatics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Informatics at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences
English, German
Github Skills (8)
php10
database-design10
mysql10
websockets-client8
websocket8
nodejs8
client-websocket8
websocket-client8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
deStrO/eBot-CSGO
Jan 2013 - Nov 2013
The eBot is a full managed server-bot written in PHP and nodeJS. eBot features easy match creation and tons of player and matchstats. Once it's setup, using the eBot is simple and fast.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Fabian primarily worked on enhancing the eBot server-bot by implementing and modifying backend functionalities. They focused on features related to match management, particularly those concerning warmup procedures and round timelines, which included database interactions and game server commands. Additionally, the user addressed issues such as fixing the "Finished Match" buttons and implementing fixes to manage pause and unpause features of the bot.
playerphpbotdiscord-botbot-server
ESLGaming/intellij-pants-plugin
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
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