Holger Lösken
Senior Web Engineer at codedge
Germany
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Top SchoolHolger Lösken is a senior web engineer and entrepreneur based in Germany with over 20 years in software and 11 years of focused professional experience delivering web and cloud-native solutions. He runs codedge, advising and building AWS microservice architectures, and currently contributes hands-on as Senior Web Engineer at M^0 Labs. Holger blends backend engineering, DevOps and QA—evidenced by contributions to meilisearch-php (type safety, encoding fixes and expanded test coverage) and Docker automation for Invoice Ninja—to improve reliability and deployability. He has held technical leadership roles from Head of Software Engineering to Head of IT, consistently turning complex requirements into maintainable systems. Known for pragmatic architecture and attention to code quality, he quietly strengthens projects behind the scenes by improving tests, encoding robustness and deployment scripts.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
IT-Management-Assistant Business Administration and Management General, IT-Management-Assistant Business Administration and Management General at Euro-Schulen DresdenBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Business Informatics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Business Informatics at Berufsakademie Sachsen Staatliche Studienakademie Glauchau
German, English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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222answers
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Github Skills (32)
meilisearch10
docker10
scripting10
testing10
environment-variables10
laravel10
dockers10
script10
php10
dockerfile10
sh10
shell10
clientside9
xdebug9
docker-compose9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
invoiceninja/dockerfiles
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Docker files for Invoice Ninja
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 releases, 1 review, 64 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Holger primarily focused on building and configuring Docker images and related infrastructure for the Invoice Ninja project. Their contributions involved modifying entrypoint scripts to support Docker secrets, manage environment variables, and handle application versioning. They also worked on setting up cron jobs for scheduled tasks and ensuring proper file permissions, all within the Dockerized environment. These changes aimed to enhance the deployment process and improve the application's maintainability.
dockerfiledocker-imagedocker-filesdockerdocker-compose
meilisearch/meilisearch-php
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
PHP wrapper for the Meilisearch API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Holger primarily contributed to improving the code quality and maintainability of the PHP wrapper for the Meilisearch API. This involved implementing better type checking, fixing code style issues, and addressing potential errors related to character encoding. The user also introduced improvements to the testing framework, enhancing test coverage and ensuring the robustness of the codebase through a suite of tests that also covered edge cases.
api-clientapiphpphp-wrappersdk
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