Matthias Pigulla
Unternehmensinhaber at Selbstständig
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMatthias Pigulla is a founder and CEO with 15 years of hands-on software and DevOps experience, leading webfactory.de from Cologne while hiring and mentoring PHP engineers. He blends deep Symfony expertise with practical DevOps improvements—contributing to core Symfony components (http-kernel, http-foundation, translation, framework-bundle) and widely used tools like Composer, Monolog and Doctrine. Matthias is skilled at hardening caching, resource validation, and cross-platform automation, with concrete contributions improving cache invalidation, ESI/SSI handling, and SSH-agent GitHub Actions. His background in Wirtschaftsinformatik informs a pragmatic approach to architecture and operational reliability that spans code, CI, and configuration management (Puppet modules). Colleagues describe him as a systems-minded engineer who moves beyond features to fix subtle edge cases and improve long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (80)
dependency-management10
package-management10
testing10
plugin-development10
http10
ruby10
automation10
symfony-ux10
object-cache10
drupal-module10
composer10
ssh10
react-components10
symfony-component10
puppet10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
webfactory/ssh-agent
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
GitHub Action to setup `ssh-agent` with a private key
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 releases, 11 reviews, 107 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of a GitHub Action designed to set up `ssh-agent` with a private key. Their work included addressing OS compatibility issues, specifically supporting OS X and Windows. They enhanced the action by adding error handling for cases where the private key is not configured and refactored the code to support multiple SSH keys. Furthermore, they optimized the action by ignoring failures during `ssh-agent` termination and updating dependencies.
ssh-agentagentprivate-keybuildkitssh
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt
Nov 2011 - Jan 2022
Puppet module to help manage Apt
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the `puppetlabs-apt` module by addressing bug fixes and improving the module's functionality. They fixed issues related to PPA updates, and improved the apt::force functionality, and updated code to support different architectures. They also made changes to the templates, ensuring the module functioned correctly with apt.
puppet-moduleaptsupportedpuppet
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