Felix Hoefer
Development Expert at SAP SE
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Hoefer is a seasoned development expert with 15 years of experience designing and implementing backend and DevOps solutions at SAP, currently shaping analytical engines and Fiori consumption interfaces for Suite on HANA and S/4HANA. He brings deep systems thinking from a physics Master's to complex enterprise landscapes, having worked across BW, BPC, NetWeaver Gateway and oData for HCM with a strong focus on test-driven development. Felix is a pragmatic backend engineer who has contributed to high-profile open-source cloud projects like Cloud Foundry BOSH and BOSH CLI, improving SSH tunnel management, disk metadata handling and runtime deployment robustness. Comfortable at the intersection of infrastructure and application code, he routinely bridges deployment lifecycles and runtime behavior to deliver reliable, observable systems. Notably, his background combines long-term product stewardship at a global vendor with hands-on fixes that reduce race conditions and harden cloud integration points.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Leibnizschule OffenbachMaster’s Degree, Physics, Diplom, Master’s Degree, Physics, Diplom at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
English, German
Github Skills (19)
bosh10
cloud-foundry10
cloud-computing10
testing10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
ruby10
go10
command-line10
cli10
openstack9
database-management8
yaml8
error-handling8
unit-testing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh-cli
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
BOSH CLI v2+
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the BOSH CLI, focusing on improving SSH tunnel management, including fixing race conditions and removing unused methods. Their work also involved integrating metadata for disk attachment operations, deriving disk metadata from VM objects, and implementing error handling improvements. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the CLI's core functionality and integration with cloud environments.
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cloudfoundry/bosh
Feb 2016 - Dec 2017
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the BOSH project by implementing and modifying backend components and configurations. Their work included changes to the registry for OpenStack connections, adjusting the job state reporting for VMs, and refactoring agent handling within deployments. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the system, adding a diff endpoint to the runtime config controller and modifying the deployment process to ensure proper database connections for Puma workers. The user also made changes related to disk snapshots and setting the correct environment encoding, demonstrating a good understanding of both infrastructure and backend operations.
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