Joshua Gleitze
Lead Software Engineer (Architect) at NiCE Cognigy
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolJoshua Gleitze is a Lead Software Engineer and architect based in Karlsruhe with 11 years of hands-on experience building durable, cohesive systems and bridging ideas across teams. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at GoTo to his current architect role at NiCE Cognigy, focusing on long-lived backend solutions and scalable build processes. A pragmatic contributor to notable open-source projects like Renovate and the Kotlin Atrium testing library, he has improved Gradle handling, template expressions, and file-path assertions—work that shows attention to developer experience and build reliability. His background includes research and teaching assistant roles at KIT, reflecting a strong foundation in software engineering principles and automated architecture analysis. Colleagues describe him as the “glue” who connects cross-functional teams while delivering practical, well-tested systems that last.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Informatik at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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Github Skills (26)
kotlin10
dependency-management10
assertion10
filesystem10
testing10
assertk10
file-operations10
assertj10
java10
javas10
fileio10
assert10
gradlew10
gradle10
dependency-analysis9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
robstoll/atrium
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
A multiplatform expectation library for Kotlin
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:80 reviews, 57 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the Atrium library by implementing new assertion functionalities, specifically for file path existence, readability, writability, and executability. They added new API extensions and keyword-based infix path assertions, and integrated these features within the testing framework by writing and modifying specifications. Their work also involved refactoring existing code, addressing encoding issues, and updating the project's build configuration.
assertion-libraryassertionstestingkotlin-multiplatformkotlin-testing
renovatebot/renovate
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 61 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on enhancing the Gradle build process within the Renovate bot project. Their commits introduced support for template expressions in version variables, enabling more flexible dependency management. They implemented changes to the Gradle configuration, supporting different syntax and order of map parameters, and ensured correct handling of dependencies. The user also addressed build script dependency updates, including repositories, and implemented type checking for enhanced code quality.
dependenciesdependencies-checkingbitbucketgitlabupdate
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