Michael Kutz
Staff Engineer at Entropy Data
Siegburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Kutz is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of professional software experience, currently driving quality and delivery excellence at REWE digital. He specializes in test automation, continuous delivery, and agile practices, empowering teams to ship reliable, bug-resistant software quickly. His background blends hands-on full-stack development with a long-standing focus on QA—transitioning from software engineer to quality engineer and now principal leadership. Michael contributes to notable open-source projects like Apache Geb, where he expanded UI input modules and strengthened test coverage, reflecting his taste for practical, well-tested tooling. Based in Siegburg, Germany, he pairs an MSc in Informatics with a pragmatic dislike of firefighting bugs, which motivates his emphasis on prevention through automation and developer enablement. Colleagues rely on him as a steady pragmatist who turns quality principles into scalable engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Informatik, Master of Science (MSc), Informatik at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, French, German, English
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
testing-library10
test-framework10
selenium-ide10
selenium10
groovy10
java10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/groovy-geb
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
Apache Geb: Very Groovy Browser Automation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 20 PRs, 34 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of new UI modules within the Geb framework, specifically focusing on HTML input types like `UrlInput`, `NumberInput`, `PasswordInput`, `ColorInput`, `DateTimeLocalInput`, `TimeInput`, `MonthInput`, and `RangeInput`. These contributions involved creating new classes, tests, and documentation snippets for these modules. Furthermore, the user refactored some existing test files.
browser-automationgroovyapachebdd-style-testing-frameworkbrowser-testing
mkutz/geb-testing-workshop
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:31 PRs, 62 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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