Norman Maurer
Distinguished Engineer, Apple Cloud Services at Java Developer
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolNorman Maurer is a Distinguished Engineer at Apple Cloud Services with over 20 years building high-performance, Java- and systems-level network frameworks and infrastructure. A core Netty developer, Java Champion and longtime Apache member, he combines deep expertise in asynchronous non-blocking I/O, JNI and protocol codecs with a strong focus on profiling and performance tuning. His contributions span major open-source projects—from Netty and SwiftNIO to QUIC/HTTP3 work in quiche and native SSL integration in netty-tcnative—reflecting rare cross-language, OS-level networking skill. Based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area, he authors practical guidance in Netty in Action and has a track record of improving core server primitives like selectors, sockets and SSL session handling. Colleagues rely on him for both low-level system design and pragmatic fixes that make high-throughput services reliable in production.
20 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Technologies, Bachelor, Information Technologies at Hochschule Darmstadt - University of Applied SciencesIT specialist, System Engineer, IT specialist, System Engineer at IHK Darmstadt
English, German
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Github Skills (48)
asynchronous10
api-rest10
ssl10
tls1210
netty10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
async10
http10
c1110
tls1310
network-programming10
networking10
java10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
netty/netty-tcnative
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
A fork of Apache Tomcat Native, based on finagle-native
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 57 reviews, 611 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Norman contributed significantly to the Apache Tomcat Native project, focusing on features related to SSL and OpenSSL integration. They added support for setting the session ID context, retrieving protocol versions and creation times, and exposing methods to get and set various SSL context and session options. The user also implemented functionalities like setting custom verification callbacks and obtaining the session ID as a byte array, enhancing error handling and functionality of the library. Furthermore, the user introduced methods to enable SNI support on the client side.
finagletomcat
normanmaurer/netty-in-action
Dec 2014 - Apr 2017
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Norman primarily contributed to the `netty-in-action` repository by fixing unit tests and matching code examples with the book's content. The changes focused on correcting and aligning code snippets within various chapters of the book, improving the accuracy and functionality of the examples. These edits suggest a focus on code correctness, educational alignment, and the practical application of Netty in action.
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