Michael Auerswald
Senior Full Stack Developer at DB Systel GmbH
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Auerswald is a Senior Full Stack Developer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience turning legacy and manual processes into modern, web-based solutions. He combines backend expertise in Node.js, Go (currently learning), Python and databases like PostgreSQL with frontend skills in React and Vue, plus solid DevOps experience (AWS, Docker, Ansible, GitHub Actions). At n8n he improved core email triggers and workflow execution handling for a widely used fair-code automation platform, demonstrating practical impact on a popular open-source project. His background spans digital health, enterprise transformation, and creative technical direction—bridging animation/VFX tooling and production pipelines with robust software architectures. Known for debugging hard problems and cleaning up messy legacy code, he gravitates toward projects that need pragmatic architecture and resilient integrations. He brings an unusual mix of creative tooling R&D and disciplined engineering, often shipping infrastructure and CI/CD improvements alongside feature work.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Degree in Advanced Character Animation Character Animation, Degree in Advanced Character Animation Character Animation at AnimationMentorAbitur, Abitur at Alte Landesschule KorbachVisual Effects, Visual Effects at fxphdref. iur. / Diplom Law, ref. iur. / Diplom Law at The Philipp University of Marburg
English, German, French, japanese (could survive with luck)
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Github Skills (17)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
typescript10
workflow-automation10
api10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
package-manager6
adobe6
expression6
django-rest-framework6
ansible6
python6
django6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
n8n-io/n8n
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:359 reviews, 50 commits, 198 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focus on enhancing the email trigger functionality within the n8n platform. They implemented improvements to connection handling, including resolving credential issues, and added a new EmailReadImapV2 with bug fixes. They addressed issues in workflow API, by validating parameters, and integrating JSON parsing and validation. The user also contributed to internal processes like applying correct statuses to workflow executions.
productivity-toolsn8npythonlow-code-platformrpa
flipswitchingmonkey/houdini_PRTROP
Dec 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 4 commits in 2 years 1 month
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