Karsten Silz
Senior Consultant Software Engineering at Better Projects Faster GmbH
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKarsten Silz is a seasoned full-stack Java engineer and senior consultant with decades of Java experience (25 years) and deep Spring expertise (18 years), now based in Stuttgart. He blends hands-on backend work—contributions to popular Spring Boot tutorials and core Java date/time utilities—with front-end and mobile skills (Angular, Flutter) and frequent responsibilities across specification, testing, operations, and support. A veteran conference speaker and long-time InfoQ Java editor, he communicates complex topics clearly and shapes community-facing content for a large technical audience. Karsten has alternated leadership and hands-on roles—CTO, VP, managing director and freelancer—bringing both strategic product judgment and day-to-day delivery craft. An interesting detail: beyond shipping enterprise systems he has contributed precise date/time logic and OpenAPI-backed integrations to well-known Spring tutorial repositories, showing attention to correctness in core platform areas.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at Technische Universität DresdenHighschool, Highschool at EOS Arnoldi
English, German
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
java10
spring-boot9
api8
apidoc8
testing7
shiro6
spring6
gradlew6
grails6
groovy6
flutter6
ruby-on-rails6
gradle6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
eugenp/tutorials
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Getting Started with Spring Boot 3:
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 36 commits, 10 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Karsten contributed to date and time operations within the core Java modules. They implemented and tested date and time functionalities, including calculating day of the week. Additionally, the user's commits included merging branches and integrating API client code related to pet store functionality, demonstrating work on backend code. The user also made contributions to a Spring Boot project with Open API generator.
spring-bootspring-security-oauthsecurityauthenticationsecurity-oauth
ksilz/tutorials
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Just Announced - "Learn Spring Security OAuth":
Contributions:54 pushes in 11 months
spring-bootspring-security-oauthsecurityauthenticationsecurity-oauth
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