Gerrit Grunwald
Principal Engineer at Azul Systems
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolGerrit Grunwald is a Principal Engineer based in Münster, Germany, with over 12 years of experience crafting rich user interfaces and developer tooling, particularly in Java (JavaFX) and Swift. He has a long track record at companies from Oracle to Azul Systems, blending evangelism and hands-on engineering to push UI quality and custom controls. Gerrit excels at visualization and component design, moving from Swing and custom controls to modern JavaFX and cross-platform UI work. He pairs deep technical skills with leadership experience dating back to team lead roles at RAITH, and frequently bridges product, installation, and customer-facing responsibilities. An avid photographer, he brings a designer’s eye to UI problems, which shows in his focus on polish and usability beyond mere functionality. Known for loving UI craftsmanship more than language debates, he thrives where design sensitivity and robust engineering meet.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UBM Unternehmensberatung MünsterLudwig-Erhard-Schule MünsterDipl. Ing. Microsystems Technology, Dipl. Ing. Microsystems Technology at University of Applied Sciences MünsterGroß- und Außenhandelskaufmann, Groß- und Außenhandelskaufmann at TDG Distribution Münster
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Github Skills (200)
tiles10
dependabot10
gradle-plugin10
java-bytecode10
gwt10
application-framework10
json10
distributions10
monitors10
json-data10
broker10
openjdk10
tray-icon10
aurora10
jna10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
foojayio/discoapi
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
The foojay discovery api (discoapi) is made to discover java packages (jre/jdk) from different distributions.
Contributions:238 commits, 6 PRs, 89 pushes in 1 year 8 months
discoverapidistributionsjrediscovery
HanSolo/monitor
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 16 commits, 8 pushes in 10 months
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