Ole Michaelis
Head Of Engineering at 1KOMMA5°
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOle Michaelis is a Head of Engineering with 14+ years in SaaS who now leads engineering at 1KOMMA5° to decarbonize housing. He blends hands-on engineering (Elixir, Ruby, Node, NoSQL) with people-first leadership, building honest, high-performance teams and coaching engineers beyond their expectations. His background spans senior and leadership roles at DNSimple, Jimdo and InnoGames, and he retains strong DevOps instincts—having implemented Elastic Beanstalk deployment providers and contributed to CI/automation tooling. An active open-source contributor, Ole has worked on widely used projects like Hubot and Travis CI tooling and improved event-driven architectures and event stores. Fluent in German and English, he balances technical curiosity with practical impact and even finds time to learn acoustic guitar, travel, play board games — and juggle seriously.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Software Developer Computer Software Engineering, Software Developer Computer Software Engineering at Gewerbeschule 18 Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (28)
eventstore10
apim10
git10
hubot10
javascript10
postgresql10
cqrs10
coffeescript10
elixir10
bots10
travis-ci10
event-sourcing10
cicd10
ruby10
aws-sdk10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
github/hubot-scripts
May 2012 - May 2014
DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113 for details - optional scripts for hubot, opt in via hubot-scripts.json
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ole primarily contributed to the development of scripts for the Hubot framework. Their work included adding features, such as a "be nice" command and a Grumpy Cat dislike. They also implemented integrations with external services like Scalarium and Travis CI, enhancing the bot's functionality. Furthermore, the user modified the existing code by removing dependencies, such as `gitio`.
opt-inopthubothubot-scriptsdetails
hubotio/hubot
Aug 2012 - Feb 2013
A customizable life embetterment robot.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ole primarily focused on extending the functionality of the Hubot framework by implementing an event system. They introduced the ability for Hubot to react to and trigger events, allowing for more flexible script interactions and integrations with external systems. This involved modifications to the core `robot.coffee` file, the addition of an `events.coffee` script, and the modification of the `brain.coffee` file. The user's work streamlined documentation and provided examples to illustrate the use of the new event-driven architecture.
roboticsbotchatrobotcustomizable
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