Oliver Eilhard
IT-Sachverständiger IT-Expert at alt F4
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolOliver Eilhard is an experienced software engineer, founder and IT expert with over 15 years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure web and cloud applications and leading technical teams. As founder of alt F4 and former CTO/partner at Meplato and Webridge, he has taken multiple large-scale enterprise systems from design to production, particularly in e-procurement and content solutions. He contributes to open-source tooling for search platforms—most notably enhancements to the olivere/elastic client—demonstrating deep backend and Elasticsearch expertise. Based in Munich, he combines practical engineering, architecture and mentoring with a knack for translating business requirements into reliable, cross-platform user experiences. Colleagues know him for pragmatic solutions and a long-standing appetite for learning and sharing new technologies.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Paderborn University
English, German
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Github Skills (11)
json10
elasticsearchquery10
elasticsearch10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
api-design9
apidoc9
api9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
olivere/elastic
Dec 2012 - Mar 2022
Deprecated: Use the official Elasticsearch client for Go at https://github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 2 reviews, 1881 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the modification of the DateHistogram aggregation by updating parameters for Elasticsearch version 2.x and introducing new settings such as TimeZone, Format, and Offset. They added unit tests to validate the changes made, and made enhancements to the search functionality. Furthermore, they added new features to the Reindex API and extended the capabilities of the Top Hits, the Combined Fields Query, and the Term aggregation.
golangelasticgoelasticsearchelasticsearch-client
olivere/httputil
Jul 2017 - Jan 2024
A set of opinionated helpers for working with HTTP handlers, requests, and responses.
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 7 months
gogolang
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