Fabian Neuschmidt
Software Engineer at ICARUS Consulting GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFabian Neuschmidt is a software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience turning ideas into market-ready products, currently building at ICARUS Consulting in Hamburg. He founded GitMate and created projects like coala, FounderBlocks and GitMate, combining hands-on backend development with product and startup leadership. Fabian has deep practical experience in CI/CD and DevOps—improving cross-platform builds for the Python Babel project—and in modernizing Python codebases and documentation across open-source communities. He leads small teams to halve time-to-market for early-stage products, focusing on pragmatic steps that drive the first revenue. Comfortable across backend, deployment and developer tooling, he brings a mechanical-engineering rigor from his academic background to software architecture and automation. An attention to maintainability and developer experience is a recurring theme in his open-source contributions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Hamburg University of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Maschinenbau, Master of Science - MS, Maschinenbau at Technische Universität Hamburg
Github Skills (31)
git10
docker10
restructuredtext10
github10
python10
scripting10
git-repository10
webscraping10
dockers10
code-analysis10
script10
urllib10
ci-cd-pipeline10
linter10
sh10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
coala/coala-bears
Feb 2016 - Jul 2017
Bears for coala
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 193 commits, 162 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Fabian contributed to the development and maintenance of coala-bears, focusing on backend aspects. Their work includes adding features like a PyPI deployment script, modifying existing code in Python files and updating README documentation with correct build status badges and licenses. The user also removed unused imports, moved code to appropriate locations and corrected travis badge as part of the maintenance efforts.
linterpythonbearsgenericlanguages
coala/documentation
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
The official documentation for coala
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits, 26 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Fabian primarily focused on improving the project's documentation within the `coala/documentation` repository. They made several edits to the installation guide, recommending the use of Docker and correcting code blocks. Furthermore, the user removed confusing sections and expanded headers to provide better clarity to users. Additional contributions included adding notes and removing external API documentation.
user-documentationsphinx-documentation
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