Philipp Fehre
Staff Engineer at Mollie
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Fehre is a Staff Engineer based in Amsterdam with 15 years of experience building resilient back-end systems and cloud-native services across companies like Mollie, Twitter, Amazon and Microsoft. He combines pragmatic engineering with a functional-programming mindset and deep familiarity with NoSQL databases—skills honed while contributing to open-source projects from Riak clients to Scala tooling and code formatters. At Twitter he worked on subscription backend services; earlier roles span developer advocacy at Couchbase and co-founding a Rails/Node consultancy, reflecting both product and community-facing experience. Philipp’s open-source contributions include cross-building Finatra for Scala 2.13 and improving Riak-JS test suites—showing attention to compatibility and test hygiene that improves developer workflows. He speaks at conferences and authors technical content, and quietly applies systems-level rigor (e.g., making CLIs and formatters behave reliably in pipelines) that pays off in production stability.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Media Science, Computer Science and Media Science at University of TübingenComputer Science, Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
English, German
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Github Skills (48)
cli10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
testing10
text-manipulation10
riak10
command-line-interface10
git-repository10
sbt10
configuration-management10
finagle10
rails10
repos10
ruby10
scala10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
burke/zeus
May 2013 - Dec 2020
Boot any rails app in under a second.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 24 PRs, 34 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily focused on modifying the Zeus project's internal workings and improving its robustness. They made the socket location configurable through environment variables and refactored the socket name retrieval for efficiency. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with the testing environment, ensuring proper integration with Minitest and RSpec, and optimized the output formatting for Emacs integration. The user also implemented changes to support the Rails 5.1 command structure.
rails-app
mostlyserious/riak-js
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Riak client for Javascript
Role in this project:Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:26 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily focused on improving the test suite and fixing issues within the Riak-JS client. They removed console logs, fixed missing semicolons, and added test cases for various functionalities like 2ii and link fetching. The user also implemented a test cleanup mechanism to ensure test independence and cleaned up the test suite. The user also contributed to the Yokozuna search functionality.
javascriptriak
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