Julian Fahrer
Principal Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJulian Fahrer is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building reliable, maintainable systems across startups and enterprise teams. He writes Ruby by day, teaches Docker to the wider dev community via LearnDocker.online, and has a proven record of shipping backend improvements and refactors that simplify maintainability—illustrated by contributions to the popular hub GitHub CLI wrapper where he implemented issue-editing and API integrations. Julian has progressed from hands-on roles and founding an IT services firm to senior engineering leadership at HOVER, Brightline, and now Cisco Meraki, combining product-minded engineering with operational experience. He brings pragmatic architecture, mentorship, and a knack for turning developer pain points into polished tooling and documentation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Software Engineering at Hochschule Heilbronn - Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Informatik
German, English
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Github Skills (9)
git10
go10
issue-tracking10
github-api10
command-line9
command-line-interface9
pullrequest8
git-pull8
merge-request8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mislav/hub
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Julian implemented features related to managing and updating issues within the GitHub tool. This involved adding functionality to edit existing issues, allowing for modification of title, body, labels, assignees, and milestones. The changes included modifying command structures and integrating with the GitHub API to facilitate these updates. The user also refactored code, extracting common functionalities for issue management, improving code maintainability.
command-line-toolgit-addonspull-requestcommand-linehomebrew
jfahrer/volt
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:29 pushes, 15 branches in 8 months
frameworkrubyweb-frameworkruns
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