Holger Adam
IT Architekt at REWE digital
Troisdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHolger Adam is an experienced IT architect with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native microservices, primarily in Node.js, Kafka and Kubernetes at REWE digital. He combines platform-level architecture with day-to-day engineering, owning the full lifecycle from design and TDD-driven development to deployment and operations on Google Cloud. Holger has contributed backend features to notable open-source tooling for Kafka/Redpanda console—improving topic management, consumer lag calculation and connector validation—showing practical expertise in streaming data workflows. His background spans full-stack e-commerce systems, low-level C++ tooling and academic simulation work, reflecting both systems depth and a knack for applied research. Based in Troisdorf, Germany, he blends pragmatic engineering with a focus on developer-friendly observability and resilient data pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität BonnDiplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Universität Bonn
English
Github Skills (15)
kafka10
apache-kafka10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
webui8
typescript-types7
react7
typescript7
typescripts7
dataops6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/console
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Holger primarily focused on implementing backend features related to topic blacklisting and configuration within the Redpanda Console project. Their contributions involved modifying code in several key areas, including consumer group lag calculation, topic configuration, and the overall service logic. The user also added a new endpoint for validating connector configurations. These changes directly impact the application's ability to manage and display data related to Kafka topics.
real-time-datareal-timegroupsapache-kafkaworkloads
nodefluent/salesforce-kafka-connect
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Salesforce connector for node kafka connect
Contributions:35 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
sinkconfluent-cloudconnectorsalesforcenode-kafka
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