Hendrik Vogelsang
Senior Engineering Manager at SUSE
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarHendrik Vogelsang is a Senior Engineering Manager with 16 years of experience leading full-stack teams at SUSE, where he drives development and operation of the large-scale Open Build Service (a Ruby on Rails/Perl platform). He combines hands-on engineering—writing RSpec-driven Rails models and responsive HTML5/CSS3/JS interfaces—with people-centered leadership that builds shared understanding across customers, business and peers. A long-time open source practitioner and maintainer, Hendrik contributes to community projects like openSUSE/osem, improving both frontend UX and backend data models and migrations. He champions software freedom and diverse teams, and even leads an open-source conference organization app while teaching free-software development through programs like RailsGirls Summer of Code. His work blends pragmatic product values with rigorous introspection to surface and correct process, technical, and interpersonal variances.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
database-migrations10
javascript10
css10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
database-migration10
ruby-on-rails10
back-end-development9
front-end-development9
backend9
rails-app8
ruby-rails8
event-emitter7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/osem
May 2013 - Jan 2023
Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 545 reviews, 1029 commits in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hendrik implemented minor features and fixes, focusing on the event management tool's frontend and backend. They made changes to controllers, models, and views, enhancing user experience and improving core functionalities such as proposal confirmation and event management. The commits also included database schema modifications and migration scripts, showing a grasp of the application's data layer and its evolution. Additionally, the user worked on integrating a non-JS schedule.
eventsevent-managementrailsrails-applicationtailored
SUSE/hackweek
Apr 2013 - Jan 2023
SUSE Hack Week tools and data
Contributions:462 reviews, 971 commits, 821 PRs in 9 years 11 months
railshack-weekrubysuse
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