Gregor Noczinski
CTO Founder at SYNAOS
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarGregor Noczinski is a seasoned software leader and founder with 13 years of engineering and management experience, currently serving as CTO of Engity and Head of Software Engineering at SYNAOS in Berlin. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by notable open-source contributions to projects like urfave/cli and a TLS-enabled mongodb_exporter—with strategic leadership roles from VP of Engineering down to senior architect positions. Gregor is fluent in building secure, production-grade systems and improving developer experience, often tackling subtle error-handling and security edge cases that improve reliability. Equally comfortable writing core code as he is scaling teams, he brings an operator’s mindset to product engineering and observability. Colleagues describe him as an “engineer in the heart” who manages with curiosity and a focus on pragmatic, long-lived solutions.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
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Github Skills (31)
tls1210
go-language10
tls1310
mongodb-database10
mtls10
go10
prometheus10
command-line10
libtls10
golang10
error-handling10
mongodb10
cli10
testing9
flags9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
urfave/cli
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gregor primarily contributed to the `urfave/cli` project by enhancing its core functionality and improving error handling. They implemented features such as the ability to customize usage error messages and addressed issues related to command execution flow, specifically around Before and After methods, which affected the error propagation of commands. Additionally, the user fixed typos and improved the handling of environment variables within the flag definitions, demonstrating a focus on code quality and usability.
golang-libraryyamlgolangcommand-line-toolsubcommands
dcu/mongodb_exporter
May 2016 - May 2016
MongoDB exporter for prometheus.io
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gregor primarily contributed to adding TLS support for both the web connector and the connection to the MongoDB server, enhancing the security of the exporter. This involved modifying the main application logic, adding flags for TLS configuration (certificates, private keys, and CA files), and integrating TLS settings within the MongoDB session configuration. Furthermore, the user introduced functionality to handle client certificate validation within the web server and incorporated logging enhancements for improved debugging and monitoring.
exportermongodb-exporterprometheus-exporterprometheusmetrics
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