Frank Prößdorf
Senior Software Engineer at n8n
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Prößdorf is a Senior Software Engineer based in Tampere with 16 years of experience designing and operating resilient, scalable systems across cloud-native, SRE and backend domains. He combines hands-on engineering with architecture and team leadership, having driven major performance and observability improvements (e.g., 75% latency reduction at Elo Health) and built Prisma’s first commercial product for serverless connection pooling. Frank is an active contributor to open-source projects that shape APIs and digital health tooling—his backend work includes meaningful contributions to tsoa and the Community Health Toolkit’s CHT Core. Comfortable across languages and infra, he focuses on making complex architectures and teams work well together while retaining a pragmatic, security-aware operational mindset.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Berlin School of Economics and Law
German, English
Github Skills (20)
api-rest10
couchdb10
javascript10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
typescript10
typescript-types10
rest-api10
nodejs10
typescripts10
openapi10
chm9
ch9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lukeautry/tsoa
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Build OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs using TypeScript and Node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 45 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the tsoa repository, focusing on improving the OpenAPI-compliant REST API generation capabilities. They addressed a typo related to security definitions, added functionality to document interfaces with examples, and enabled setting status codes and headers in controllers without extending the base Controller class. Their work also involved generating custom operation IDs and integrating changes for OpenAPI 3.0.0, highlighting their focus on improving the project's core functionality.
apicompliantnodejsrestrest-api
medic/cht-core
Feb 2012 - May 2012
The CHT Core Framework makes it faster to build responsive, offline-first digital health apps that equip health workers to provide better care in their communities. It is a central resource of the Community Health Toolkit.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Frank made several commits related to the development of the CHT Core Framework, focusing on the `kujua-sms-import` package. These commits involved significant changes to the SMS parsing, data record handling, and the integration of text forms, along with modifications to existing tests and a new test for data record creation through non-referral forms. The user was involved in the design of a data merging process, particularly the addition of support for form field validation and authorization headers.
digital-healthmhealthmobilemedicalpouchdb
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