Michael Lihs
Software Development Manager at Philips
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Lihs is a software development manager with 15 years of experience specializing in infrastructure automation, CI/CD and cloud-native build pipelines for automotive and enterprise software. He has led migrations from Jenkins to GitLab, containerised builds on Kubernetes, and shaped CI best-practices for ADAS ECU development while working as a consultant at ThoughtWorks and as a DevOps evangelist at Bosch. Now at Philips, he combines hands-on engineering with team leadership to deliver reliable, automated delivery platforms and developer toolchains. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed meaningful enhancements to the widely used go-gitlab SDK, adding API support and robust JSON handling. Founded and organized multiple regional meetups (DevOps Karlsruhe, DevOps Stuttgart, Automotive Software Development Stuttgart), showing a knack for community building and knowledge sharing. He pairs a formal computer science background from KIT with practical craftsmanship—he also trained as a luthier—reflecting attention to detail across code, infrastructure and tools.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatiker Informatik, Diplom Informatiker Informatik at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Gitarrenbauer (Geselle), Gitarrenbauer (Geselle) at Der Gitarrenladen Weingarten
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
7,880reputation
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51questions
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gitlab
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jenkins
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Github Skills (21)
json10
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
go10
api10
sdk10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
java9
rest-api9
gitlab9
jenkins9
csv6
macos6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
xanzy/go-gitlab
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
GitLab Go SDK
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 21 PRs, 28 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the GitLab Go SDK, focusing on enhancing the API's functionality and improving its data handling. They added support for new API endpoints, including user activities, merge request deletion, and protected branch management. Furthermore, they implemented custom JSON unmarshalling and marshalling logic to handle specific data formats and made changes to the data structures to accommodate new fields within the GitLab API responses. Several commits also addressed existing issues, improving the SDK's overall correctness.
golanggitlab-cigitlab-apigitlabsdk
michaellihs/presentations
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
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