Michael Koch
Director Apps Engineering at Open-Xchange
Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Koch is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building and shipping business and mobile applications, currently serving as Director Apps Engineering at Open-Xchange in Bremen. He combines hands-on expertise across Android, iOS, JavaEE/SE, databases and server administration with a track record of evolving teams from principal architect to director roles. As a former CTO and chief architect at Enough Software and an early freelance developer, he brings product-minded technical leadership and a knack for operational tooling. Michael is also an active back-end and automation contributor to the Jenkins project, enhancing CLI commands for real-world admin workflows—a hint of his interest in making complex systems more operable.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Fachhochschule FuldaFachhochschule Darmstadt
English, German
Github Skills (13)
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
java10
cli10
continuous-integration9
devops9
continuous-delivery9
pipeline8
pipe8
build-pipelines8
data-pipeline8
groovy7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/jenkins
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Jenkins automation server
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to adding and improving CLI commands within the Jenkins automation server. They implemented the `list-jobs` and `list-plugins` commands, allowing users to retrieve job and plugin information. Furthermore, they modified existing code, handling item groups and adding output enhancements. These changes suggest a focus on extending and improving the command-line interface for system administration and interaction.
continuous-deploymentjenkinscontinuous-testinggroovydevops
Enough-Software/pcap-http-analyzer
Jun 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:115 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 4 months
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