Oliver Galloway
Software Engineering Manager at Emma – The Sleep Company
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Galloway is a Berlin-based Software Engineering Manager with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience and four years leading teams across distributed systems, cloud, and data analytics. He has a track record of building resilient, cost-conscious organisations—driving $2M cloud savings at GoTo and €300k+ data centre reductions at Verivox—while promoting and developing engineering talent. Comfortable bridging QA, release engineering and devops practices, he has consistently modernised legacy systems into containerised, CI-driven pipelines and established data & analytics practices to inform product decisions. A pragmatic coach, Oliver runs career-path workshops and established guilds to grow technical skills and strategic thinking across teams. Trained in both computer science and psychology, he combines technical depth with an emphasis on team wellbeing and sustainable pace during periods of organisational change.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science & Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science & Psychology at University of the Witwatersrand
English, Afrikaans, German, French, Dutch, Norwegian
Github Skills (29)
coda9
java9
sdk8
data-collection8
nodejs7
javascript7
trunk6
monitoring6
npm-cli6
django5
npm5
executable4
python4
puppet3
android3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akvo/akvo-flow-data-config
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
import-flowexportconfiguration-filesdata-flowimport-export
civatio/civatio-tech
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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