Kore Nordmann
Software Engineer LEAD FUH at FernUniversität in Hagen
Ruhr Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKore Nordmann is a veteran software leader and former CTO with 20 years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and founding successful companies through empathic leadership and disciplined delivery. Currently a Software Engineer at FernUniversität in Hagen and running the Hejme Family Platform as a solopreneur, Kore blends hands-on backend engineering with executive strategy, having led teams at Frontastic, commercetools, and Qafoo. He specializes in service boundary design, dependency management, and high-load operations, with practical open-source contributions to projects like eZ Publish kernel and PHP_Depend that emphasize test automation and maintainability. Committed to sustainable tech and workplace wellbeing, he couples technical excellence with explicit advocacy for underrepresented communities and disciplined boundaries to avoid burnout. Based in the Ruhr region, Kore brings a rare combination of startup CEO experience and deep engineering craft, focused on building software that endures while keeping teams energized.
20 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
TU Dortmund University
Github Skills (14)
php10
code-analysis10
software-quality10
dependency-analysis10
test-automation10
testing10
searching9
persistence9
xml9
postgresql8
automations8
automation8
mysql8
database-design7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ezsystems/ezpublish-kernel
Jul 2011 - Oct 2015
Kernel (Repository, MVC layer, REST) for eZ Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:877 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kore's contributions primarily revolved around enhancing the testing infrastructure and adapting the codebase. Their work involved refactoring tests for the location handler, switching to mock gateways, and fixing assertions. Furthermore, they were responsible for adjusting the test environments for SQLite database support, and implementing various test cases to ensure the functionality and integrity of the codebase. They focused on persistence and search.
kernelphplibcez-platformansible-collections
pdepend/pdepend
Feb 2008 - Sep 2015
PHP_Depend is an adaptation of the established Java development tool JDepend. This tool shows you the quality of your design in terms of extensibility, reusability and maintainability.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kore's contributions primarily involve modifications to the PHP_Depend project. They appear to be focused on refactoring and improving the codebase's structure and functionality. Several commits include updates to the XML report generation, implementing the class dependency analyzer and making changes related to reporting. The changes also include dependency analysis features and internal refactoring of the code.
reusabilityjava-developmentmaintainabilityphpcode-quality
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