Gregor Riegler
Principal Software Engineer at Tricentis
Austria
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Top SchoolGregor Riegler is a Principal Software Engineer and technical coach with 12 years of experience helping teams improve code quality, delivery and developer joy. Known as a "merciless refactorer," he combines hands-on backend and automation work—contributing to tools like the popular remotemobprogramming/mob—with coaching and leadership roles that scale best practices across organizations. He co-organizes Software-Crafters Vienna, maintains mob.sh, and runs a public weekly remote mob-programming event, reflecting a strong commitment to collaborative development. Based in Austria, he has progressed from web and team lead roles to senior consultancy and now principal-level engineering at Tricentis, blending mentoring, test-driven refactoring, and build automation to make systems more maintainable and teams more effective.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, IT/Multimedia, Diplom, IT/Multimedia at HTL Spengergasse, Wien
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Github Skills (19)
git10
go10
testing9
refactoring8
automations8
cli8
automation8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
refactor8
golang7
redirect6
agile6
authorization6
spring-security6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
remotemobprogramming/mob
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Tool for smooth git handover.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:14 releases, 101 reviews, 208 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gregor focused on refactoring and enhancing the codebase for the `mob` tool. They made multiple commits that refined core functionalities, including improvements to the branch determination logic. Moreover, they implemented and refactored test cases, increasing code coverage and improving the overall maintainability of the project. The user also made changes that added capabilities for testing and streamlined build processes.
golangmob-programmingremote-mob-programmingremote-mobsmob
gregorriegler/talk-coding-should-be-fun
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 18 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years
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