Pascal Fischer
Software Engineer at NetBird
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPascal Fischer is a software engineer based in Berlin with seven years of professional experience building reliable back-end systems. He currently works at NetBird, contributing to a WireGuard®-based overlay networking project where he’s focused on refactoring, testing, and enhancing CLI status features with JSON/YAML outputs and richer peer diagnostics. Prior to NetBird he progressed through engineering roles at Searchmetrics, moving from working student to software engineer, which reflects steady growth in production-grade web and backend development. Pascal holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from TU Berlin and brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to improving observability and tooling in distributed systems. His open-source contributions to a notable networking repo demonstrate both security-minded engineering and attention to developer UX in operations.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (12)
golang10
go10
go-testing10
testing10
wireguard9
yaml9
json9
manage8
net8
management8
vpn8
networkmanager8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
netbirdio/netbird
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025
Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 330 reviews, 408 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pascal's contributions primarily revolve around refactoring and testing of the Netbird service's status functionality. They added initial tests and refactored existing status functions, adding new features like JSON and YAML output formats for detailed status information. Their work included modifying and extending the CLI's command structure to display information in different formats, including IPv4 addresses and detailed peer connection statuses.
golangmeshsecurevpnzero-trust-network-access
netbirdio/management-integrations
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:9 reviews, 11 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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