Nils Wloka
VP Of Product Delivery at Stargazr
Morsbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolNils Wloka is a seasoned software leader and VP of Product Delivery with over two decades of industry experience and 14 years in senior technical and product roles. He combines hands-on development and architecture expertise with product and delivery leadership to help organizations sustainably ship value and enjoy the process. His background spans startups and scale-ups—most recently leading product and technology functions at steadybit and now at Arango—while also advising AI and observability ventures. An active contributor to open-source testing tooling, he has improved the popular cucumber-jvm project by fixing core bugs and modernizing Clojure examples, reflecting a continued commitment to developer ergonomics. Based in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, he brings a pragmatic, people-focused approach to blending agile practices with robust engineering. Colleagues value him for turning complex requirements into clear roadmaps and for mentoring teams through rapid prototyping to production-ready products.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ruhr University BochumTU Dortmund UniversityGoethe Gymnasium Hörde
Dutch, Chinese, German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
cucumber-jvm10
java10
test-automation10
clojure-cli9
clojure9
spring-boot8
authentication6
hibernate6
orm6
jpa6
sql6
spring6
authorization6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-jvm
Aug 2011 - Mar 2013
Cucumber for the JVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nils contributed to the Cucumber-JVM project by addressing bugs and implementing new features. They fixed an issue within the SpringFactory class by adding a missing initialization step and modified the StepDefinitionMatch class to handle StepDefinitions that return null for getParameterTypes. Furthermore, the user updated and migrated the clojure-cukes examples project to use new step definition syntax, updated versions for plugins and project dependencies. The user's work primarily focused on improving the core functionality of the Java based testing framework and related clojure support.
cucumber-jvmjvmcucumberjavapolyglot-release
codecentric-labs-zero/react-native-project-template
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
A project template for kickstarting codecentric labs mobile app assignments.
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 months
react-nativefluttermobile-appcodecentric
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