Manfred Moser
Senior Principal Dev Rel Engineer at Chainguard
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolManfred Moser is a Senior Principal DevRel Engineer with 16 years of experience bridging developer tooling, open source community building, and technical content. Based in Victoria, BC, he combines deep hands-on expertise—especially in Maven, build automation and DevOps—with a talent for clear, actionable documentation and training. A long-time Apache Maven committer and contributor to high-profile projects like Trino, he has improved core tooling (maven-wrapper) and upstream developer ergonomics (bash completions, wrapper automation). He runs his own consulting practice and has held director-level roles shaping open source strategy and community leadership at Starburst and Walmart Labs. Colleagues know him for turning nuanced build and release problems into repeatable automation and for teaching as a core part of his workflow. His background in applied physics underpins a methodical, systems-oriented approach to developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. Technische Physik (Applied Physics), Dipl.-Ing. Technische Physik (Applied Physics) at Technische Universität GrazBundesrealgymnasium SalzburgMSc Applied Physics, MSc Applied Physics at RMIT University
German, English
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Github Skills (57)
documentation10
github-ci10
serializable10
pomxml10
serializer10
scripting10
command-line-interface10
http10
git-repository10
bash10
bash-completion10
environment-variables10
java10
soap10
serialization10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
simpligility/ksoap2-android
Apr 2010 - Mar 2019
ksoap2-android - SOAP support for Android
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:388 commits, 20 PRs, 110 pushes in 9 years
Contributions summary:Manfred primarily focused on maintaining and improving the ksoap2-android library. They made modifications to the SOAP serialization and deserialization logic, particularly addressing issues with attributes, namespaces, and handling empty or missing data. They also contributed to improved HTTPS support by integrating a working https transport and connection. Further contributions included updates to testing code.
javaandroidsoap
sonatype/nexus-book-examples
Dec 2012 - Nov 2016
Example projects and other resources for the book Repository Management with Nexus
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:115 commits, 3 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Manfred primarily worked on adding and adapting examples from an older guide within the repository. This involved modifying build scripts for Maven, adapting wrapper scripts, and incorporating examples for Ant/Ivy and Gradle projects. They also refactored the code to update the package structure and incorporated feedback from code reviews, reflecting ongoing efforts to improve the structure and examples.
nexusrepository-managementexample-projects
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