Patrick Baumgartner
Technical Agile Coach & Software Crafter at Voxxed Days Zürich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPatrick Baumgartner is a Technical Agile Coach and Software Crafter with 13 years of experience helping teams write cleaner code, adopt TDD, and ship software faster from the Zürich area. He blends hands-on Java/Spring expertise—demonstrated by contributions upgrading the well-known Spring Petclinic sample app—with coaching, training, and architecture work across enterprise projects. As a longtime lecturer at ZHAW and other institutions, he translates industry practices into curriculum and mentorship, guiding bachelor theses and running courses in software engineering. He co-organizes Voxxed Days Zürich and supports the local tech community, bringing event leadership and sponsorship experience to his coaching role. Known for a pragmatic focus on continuous improvement, he pairs deep technical skills (OSGi, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, NoSQL) with a cooperative mindset as a member of the coalist cooperative.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieur FH Systems Engineering; Computer Science, Ingenieur FH Systems Engineering; Computer Science at NTB Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technik Buchs SGDiploma Pre-MBA / Entrepreneurship, Diploma Pre-MBA / Entrepreneurship at KTC Language Institut - Vancouver BC, Canada
German, English
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Github Skills (14)
maven10
javas10
gradlew10
java10
spring-boot10
gradle10
testing9
web-development9
docker8
css8
dockers8
caching6
php6
typo36
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
spring-projects/spring-petclinic
Jan 2023 - Nov 2024
A sample Spring-based application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on updating dependencies and upgrading the Spring Petclinic application to newer versions of Spring Boot and related dependencies. This included changes to CSS files, test classes, and build configurations. They also upgraded the Maven and Gradle wrapper to ensure consistent builds and maintained the Docker configurations.
spring-bootspring-dataspringspring-samplejava
patbaumgartner/lovebox-telegram-sender
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
An app which uses a Telegram bot to send via the Lovebox GraphQL API messages.
Contributions:4 releases, 86 PRs, 170 pushes in 3 years 3 months
spring-boottelegram-botapigraphql-apilovebox
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