Heiko Onnebrink
Principal Architect at Wipro
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarHeiko Onnebrink is a Principal Architect based in Düsseldorf with a decade of experience designing and delivering robust backend and database-driven systems. At Wipro he blends hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, focusing on reliable cloud-native operations and data resilience. He contributes to prominent open-source tooling for database backup and restore (wal-g), adding practical features like detailed backup metadata, improved logging around PG base backups, and safer deletion behavior—signals of a pragmatic engineer who prioritizes operability. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex backup and archival requirements into maintainable, auditable solutions. Heiko combines deep database-operational expertise with a penchant for small but impactful improvements that reduce production risk.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
golang10
re-store10
backup10
go10
database-administration10
postgresql10
archiving10
cloud-computing8
aws-s37
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wal-g/wal-g
May 2019 - May 2019
Archival and Restoration for databases in the Cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 17 days
Contributions summary:Heiko primarily contributed to improving the backup and restore functionality of the database archival tool. They implemented features like the `--detail` switch for listing backups with metadata, and added logging for `pg_start_backup` and `pg_stop_backup` calls. Their work also included fixing an issue with the exit code when deleting backups and excluding the LOG folder from backups.
golangsqlservermysqlrestorationdatabases
HeikoOnnebrink/wal-g
May 2019 - Sep 2020
Archival and Restoration for Postgres
Contributions:6 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 3 months
postgresqlpostgresrestorationarchival
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