Kilian Hertel
Product Manager, Software Development at Qvest Digital AG
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolKilian Hertel is a bilingual (German/French/English) product manager and seasoned software leader with 10 years of experience spanning B2B software sales, DevOps, prototyping, and full-stack web and mobile development. Currently leading software product efforts at Qvest Digital after senior engineering and founder/CEO roles, he combines hands-on engineering chops with strategic product and modernization experience. His background includes IoT and database/AI tooling, and he thoughtfully bridges consultancy, project leadership, and team management to deliver pragmatic, production-ready solutions. An active contributor to open-source—having improved Node-RED by adding a function-node timeout to prevent server hangs—he brings an operator’s mindset to reliability and refactoring.
10 years of coding experience
Diplom, Internationale Betriebswirtschaft, Diplom, Internationale Betriebswirtschaft at International School of Management, Germany
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Github Skills (16)
nodejs10
javascript10
chai10
flow-based-programming10
testing10
visual-programming-language9
visual-programming9
html9
low-code8
audio6
webgl6
svg6
web-audio-api6
excel6
vba6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
node-red/node-red
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Low-code programming for event-driven applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 PRs, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kilian implemented a timeout attribute for the function node in the Node-RED platform. This involved modifying the HTML, JavaScript, and test files to incorporate the new functionality. The changes included adding a new input field for the timeout value, modifying the JavaScript code to handle the timeout, and writing a test case to verify the timeout functionality. These modifications improve the robustness of the platform by preventing infinite loops from crashing the server.
event-sourcingnode-redjavascriptlow-codecqrs
k1ln/realtimejs
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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