Falk Kühnel
Member at MakerSpace Bonn e.V.
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFalk Kühnel is an agile-minded software engineer and organizational consultant with 14 years of experience helping teams and companies build employee-centered, profitable work cultures. He blends hands-on back-end development and DevOps contributions—fixing core Zend Framework HTTP issues and improving a cross-platform Vagrant hosts updater—with deep coaching experience as a team/technical/change coach at companies like igus and REWE digital. A founder and CEO across multiple ventures, Falk pairs entrepreneurial instincts with practical delivery, from training roles at trivago to building internal coaching practices. He emphasizes test quality and reliability, evidenced by contributions to the Mockery testing library, and brings a pragmatic, people-first approach to technical problems. Based in the Cologne–Bonn region and holding a Diplom in Computer Science, Falk specializes in fostering sustainable agile mindsets that improve both team happiness and business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inform., Computer Science, Dipl.-Inform., Computer Science at Fernuniversität Hagen
German, English
Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
testing10
zend-framework10
mockery10
phpunit10
ruby10
http-client10
php10
mocking10
test-doubles10
vagrant10
scripting9
fileio9
file-access9
shell9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
agiledivider/vagrant-hostsupdater
Apr 2013 - Oct 2013
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Falk primarily focused on managing and extending the functionality of a Vagrant plugin for updating the /etc/hosts file. They refactored the code, added new features, and improved the logic for adding and removing host entries. The contributions include handling Windows-specific paths and the ability to use aliases for hostnames. The user's work centered on making the plugin more robust and cross-platform compatible.
zendframework/zendframework
Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Falk focused on fixing bugs and improving the Zend Framework's HTTP client and request handling. They addressed issues related to cookie handling, including setting zero values correctly. Additionally, the user fixed URI validation problems and updated the code to use HttpUri and made associated test changes. The contributions mainly involved modifying core framework components and adding relevant tests.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
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