Michael Rittmeister
Softwareingenieur at Homedia
Fulda, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Rittmeister is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building mobile and back-end systems from Fulda, Germany. Currently at Homedia, he brings practical expertise in cross-platform mobile development (Flutter NFC plugin) and Kotlin back-end work, having contributed meaningful features and platform compatibility improvements to open-source projects. His contributions to the kord Discord API wrapper demonstrate attention to API ergonomics, documentation, and compatibility—skills that translate to robust, maintainable software. Comfortable across Android/iOS and server-side Kotlin, he has a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes like NFCAvailability checks, Gradle migrations, and slash-command improvements. Michael combines applied computer science studies with vocational training in IT, reflecting a practical, improvement-focused engineering approach and a preference for hands-on contributions over headline-grabbing roles.
9 years of coding experience
Städt. Berufsschule für Informationstechnik MünchenFachabitur, Fachabitur at Staatliche Fachoberschule FürstenfeldbruckAngewandte Informatik, Angewandte Informatik at Hochschule Fulda
Github Skills (16)
kotlin10
nfc10
flutter-game10
api10
android10
flutter-plugin10
apidoc10
discord10
flutter-apps10
flutter10
kotlin-coroutines9
discord-js9
android-sdk9
ios8
sdk8
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
kordlib/kord
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Idiomatic Kotlin Wrapper for The Discord API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:235 reviews, 72 commits, 152 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on implementing and refining core features of the Discord API wrapper, kord. Their contributions included adding premium tier functionality and max emote counts to guilds. Further improvements involved updating documentation for existing features and addressing spelling errors, alongside bytecode updates and binary compatibility fixes. The user also contributed to improvements in slash command builders.
idiomaticapikotlin-jsdiscorddiscord-library
dotintent/flutter-nfc-reader
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
Flutter NFC reader plugin for iOS and Android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 9 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Flutter NFC reader plugin, enhancing its functionality and platform compatibility. Their work involved adding and modifying parameters to methods, such as `read` and `onTagDiscovered`, to support instruction messages. Additionally, the user implemented NFCAvailability features, including the checkNFCAvailability method and an enum. The user also updated the example app by targeting Android 11, bumping the Gradle version and migrating to v2 embedding.
dartandroidflutter-pluginnfc-tagios
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