Gregor Schmidt
Principal Engineer at Tourlane
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGregor Schmidt is a Berlin-based Principal Engineer with 19 years of hands-on experience building Ruby on Rails and JavaScript applications, currently leading architecture and delivery at Tourlane. He combines deep backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to Redmine and the open-source ChiliProject—with practical frontend and mobile skills from shipping Cordova hybrid apps and responsive UIs. As a recurring tech lead, he has driven payment integrations, booking funnel synchronization, and high-load chat server improvements, translating product needs into robust, deployable systems. Gregor pairs rigorous academic training (MSc in Software Engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute) with a pragmatic developer mindset, favoring maintainable refactors and cross-team knowledge sharing. Notably, his open-source work includes resolving subtle database adapter and case-insensitivity issues in ChiliProject, reflecting attention to edge cases that keep production systems reliable.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Johann-Gottfried-Herder Gymnasium BerlinM.Sc. Software Engineering, M.Sc. Software Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
German, English
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Github Skills (13)
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
mysql9
database-management8
refactoring7
redmine6
iframe6
google-chrome6
cookie6
android6
cordova6
user-agent6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chiliproject/chiliproject
Feb 2011 - Jun 2013
ChiliProject is a web based project management system built on Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gregor contributed to the ChiliProject project, which is a web-based project management system built on Ruby on Rails. Their commits primarily focused on refining the application's core functionality, including database interactions and user authentication logic. They addressed specific issues related to case-insensitive comparisons and database adapter compatibility. Additionally, the user worked on code organization and refactoring, such as extracting classes and modules from the menu manager.
ruby-on-railsmanagement-systemproject-management-systemrailsweb-based
bumi/find_by_param
Sep 2008 - Sep 2011
Contributions:33 commits in 3 years
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